We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. .

The first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the community, whether right or wrong.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.

Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies–people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing...

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking them from a cloister.

But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us...

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

A child’s education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.

if one of two or more joint wrongdoers has to pay all the damages, he cannot recover contribution from his fellows.

We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.

A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve.

We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluable, we, or many of us at least, also believed that the conflict was...

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn’t pass it around. Wouldn’t be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don’t say embrace trouble. That’s as bad as...