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

Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.

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.

Without an imagination we would be irreparably shackled to what is, and never be released to what could be.

I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.

A story only wants to be told. Don't stand in its way.

We both wanted to know each other's secrets, and we both wanted the other person to go first.

If the heroes run and hide, who will stay and fight?

But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.

People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out.

Real, rough and rugged, shine like a gold nugget, Every time I pick up the microphone, I drug it.

We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.

The most powerful military country in the world, America - which makes all the guns, all the machinery, all the bullets - taught us how to shoot the guns.