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…

- Archibald Cox

... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.

- Archibald Cox

A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.

- Archibald Cox

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.

- Archibald Cox

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…

- Archibald Cox

Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.

- Archibald Cox

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…

- Archibald Cox

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…

- Archibald Cox