I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.

Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.

... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.

A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.

A man who don't know history, he don't know anything.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

Prosperity tries the fortunate adversity the great.

Death is terrible to Cicero desirable to Cato and indifferent to Socrates.

For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now we are coming out the other side.

When you are through changing, you are through.

Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life

I don't trust lawyers and journalists.

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

Life doesn't happen in chapters - at least, not regular ones.