There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

Law never is, but is always about to be.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.

How did I get 'IT'? - By crying, begging, yelping! - Any of this helping?

You do not need to make everyone happy, because you are not paid for.

Being normal is grossly over-rated.

Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.

[Mike Flynn] didn't just call Russia, he called and spoke to, both ways, I think there were 30-some-odd countries. He was just doing his job.

There’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

When all names and forms have been given up, the real is with you. You need not seek it.

Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.