The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present

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.

We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

I'm tired of chasing people.

Now I can go back to being ruthless again.

But history will judge you, and as the years pass, you will ultimately judge yourself, in the extent to which you have used your gifts and talents to lighten and enrich the lives of your fellow men. In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfillment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.