The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.