The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.

What is the quality of your intent? Certain people have a way of saying things that shake us at the core. Even when the words do not seem harsh or offensive, the impact is shattering. What we could be experiencing is the intent behind the words. When we intend to do good, we do. When we intend to do harm, it happens. What each of us must come to realize is that our intent always comes through.

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

[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.

We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984.

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

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]