Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.

The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.

Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness.

The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.

The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.

There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.

To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.

I don't get along with people who think they know everything and everyone.

Such as make the sacrament only a representation of Christ do aim short of the mystery, and come short of the comfort.

I am seeking I am striving I am in it with all my heart.

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.

I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled.

It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.