No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.

The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital, not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary, but by considering their origin and the line of their growth.

War? War is an organized bore.

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and foundations of all rational decisions.