Occupation: Former United States Solicitor General Birth: May 17, 1912 Death: May 29, 2004
... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power..
What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure of just one person to join, to p….
Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people..
Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Rich….
Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals w….
A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues..
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen to be impartially dedica….
I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home..