The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.

From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

I've seen what's happened to America. We're no longer respected.

Alcohol causes conflicts, firearms resolve conflicts.

Ruining is a gift .. it's the way of changing.

It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.

I LOVE Africa in general, South Africa and West Africa. They are both great countries.

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.