No system of criminal justice can, or should, survive if it comes to depend for its continued effectiveness on the citizens' abdication through unawa….

America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to anni….

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different..

It is never easy to define what is moral, particularly in foreign policy. But at the risk of being simplistic, it appears to me that a foreign policy….

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth..

The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to do harm to himself..

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford..

Equal Justice Under The Law. That is a great goal. But that goal has not been realized..

You cannot rectify every real or alleged wrong immediately. Time must enter into the picture..

The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be p….

It is fundamental that the great powers of Congress to conduct war and to regulate the Nation's foreign relations are subject to the constitutional r….

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Suc….

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock..

I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon..