There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved.

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

If Freud had worn a kilt in the prescribed Highland manner he might have had a very different attitude to genitals.

An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.