Great Throughts Treasury

"The [Supreme] Court’s only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society."

"The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it."

"To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks."

"The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial. "

"No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers; the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics."