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

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.

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.

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.

He looked for gestures, afraid of words

Learn from your mistakes and don't do the same.

You were ordered to obey to Allah, and you were create to perform good deeds.

Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.

I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

We all do foolish things when we are in love. Don't we, your grace?

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.

War should only be used for a policy worth its sacrifices.