After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

There can be no security where there is fear.

Oh sorry, I was taking life seriously.

To succeed in life you need five things – a burning desire, a willingness to do whatever it takes, wisdom, incredible effort, and a commitment to never ending improvement.

Books make the soul float.

You can survive the storm. Your soul is stronger than the storm.

Not every child is cut out for an individual sport.

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

The Imagi-Nation is a little country in your head. When you're young, you go there to play. When you get older, you go there to worry.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.