Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.

Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.

Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the chances of freedom; that the liberating play of reason be brought to bear on events filled with passion; that dissent be allowed to make its appeal for acceptance; that men chance error in their search for the truth.

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change.