There were times when David Souter thought of Bush v. Gore and wept.

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.

The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.

My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world weve long known and the world that will become.

It's always interesting to see what judges do when their legal philosophy conflicts with their political views.

Judges can receive gifts as long as they report them.

Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.

Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.

He saw the Constitution as the vehicle to keep ecumenical passions in check.

Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.

He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.

Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety of thought or expression. A man for his time, indeed.

Learn to accept and bend like the willow. For if you resist, you will break like the oak.

There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.

Don't look at me like I've gotten old or something like that.

I always have faith that something's going to happen good for you, and it going to happen.

You're going to have to change the priorities of your life, if you love this planet.

anything a guy can do a girl can do better...except being stupid

Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea.

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.