Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Any new formula which suddenly emerges in our consciousness has its roots in long trains of thought; it is virtually old when it first makes its appearance among the recognized growths of our intellect.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.