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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.
The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?
If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.
The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.
Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.
Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.
There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator.
I play duplicate bridge and I play golf and I go swimming once in a while.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.
We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.
Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.
Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.
Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
Ambiguity lurks in generality, and may thus become an instrument of severity.
The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases.
To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
Public officials, including state legislators, have a duty to act impartially.
It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.
For him in vain the envious seasons roll Who bears eternal summer in his soul.
I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful.
Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.
The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.
An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey.
In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.