Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.
Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.
The duty to disclose knowledge of crime rests upon all citizens.
Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.
Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.
To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.
There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.
[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.
Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.
In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.
We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us.
If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
A new invention to poison people ... is not a patentable invention.
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.
Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.
The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.
A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.
Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.
The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
Clerks get into the damnedest wrangles--which is the way they help me.
We need be bold and adventuresome in our thinking in order to survive.
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.
If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.
The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.
We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.