Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers]

Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

We must dissent from the fear.

Truth is more than a mental exercise.

[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]

To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today.