Judge Quotes

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
This case reminds me of one in which I likened the Plaintiff's case to a colander, because it was so full of holes.
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time.
If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.
The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.
They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.
He who doesn't fear death dies only once.
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.
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