Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

Law never is, but is always about to be.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.

I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.

Every journey begins with the first step of articulating the intention, and then becoming the intention.

We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers.

I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.

The challenge is to keep it fresh. If you're talking about Britney Spears over and over, it's very hard to keep that interesting.

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

Jesus himself wants my sufferings; He needs them for souls.

What I like to believe, and what I do firmly hold to, is that in us all we do have the ability to remain honorable, no matter what has been done to us. No matter what horrors we've witnessed.

I try to operate on two unconnected levels. One on the practical level of action in which I am extremely cautious and conservative. The second is the realm of ideas where I try to be very free

If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp.