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While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
A road is a dagger placed in the heart of a wilderness.
A reporter is no better than his source of information.
History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.
The United States has a system of taxation by confession
Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.
Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
I didn't want to be out of order answering any questions.
Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.
The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.
Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.
Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.
There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.
While money is used to finance speech, money is not speech.
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases.
I rise early because no day is long enough for a day's work.
A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.
[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]
Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence of a State legislature.
(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.
Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility.
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.
There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!
Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious
It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.
And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.
The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.
A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.