When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have started out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity.

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.

Government is not a warfare of interests.

All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.