The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards |
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. |
The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort. |
The real rulers in Washington are invisible to exercise power from behind the scenes |
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it |
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it |
The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life. |
There can be no security where there is fear. |
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal |
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal |
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. |
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late |