1. “The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.”
2. “No office of the land is ore important than that of being a citizen.”
3. “The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.”
4. “Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.”
5. “The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.”
6. “It is important noot to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed.”
7. “The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.”
8. “Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a sae harbor. for freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.”
9. “Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.”
10. “It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics to the people.”
11. “Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.”
12. “Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.”
13. “No court can make time stand still.”
14. “it is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.”
15. “It simply is not true that war never settles anything.”
16. “There can be no security where there is fear.”
17. “Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.”
18. “Gratitude is one off the least articulate of the emotions especially when it is deep.”
19. “The mark of a truly civilized ma is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.”
20. “The indispensable judicial requisite is intellectual humility.”
21. “I don’t like a man to be too efficient. he’s likely to be not human enough.”
22. “It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness an vacillation.”
23. “No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.”
24. “Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.”
25. “Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.”
26. “It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.”
27. “The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range rom mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.”
28. “To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.”
29. “There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.”
30. “The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.”
