Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer. It is more important than competence or vision. It can never be an elective in any law school. It can never be de-limited, dated or outworn, and it should pervade the heart, the halls of justice and the chambers of the mind.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.

Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile

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

I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor.