A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet...to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

We may be well on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.