It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.

The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.

I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so.

Knowledge offers you strength. Wisdom promises you influence. Understanding assures you wealth. Love guarantees you power.

Thought is power, as is desire, but neither is enough unless it is backed by faith, specificity, and the desire to see to it that it becomes.

Why should I be angry at someone when they are out dancing?

I'll smoke anything. I won't spend a lot of money on cigars, because I consider that too self indulgent. $3, max, except for special occasions. And yes, I do know the difference.

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

People will be talking about the [Barack] Obama legacy for decades, and I wanted to include my voice in the analysis of this presidency.

My blood is no different from that of other martyrs.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.