One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.

For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.

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