Law never is, but is always about to be.

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.

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.

The path for those who go with the truth is not is not that smooth. Guns, crosses and hangmen in the gallows are waiting for them!

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

We have a man [Donald Trump] who judges people based on their performance regardless of your gender, race, your ethnic or religious background.

The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.

I look forward to the end of all this money-making part of the career, to be truthful.

To build up a future, you have to know the past.

We can both prevent asteroid impacts and address climate change. It's not either-or.

Sometimes, love was not enough.