“Wisdom too often never comes, so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.”

“Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.”

“The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.”

“To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.”

“Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.”

“The Court's authority - possessed of neither the purse nor the sword -ultimately rests on substantial public confidence in its moral sanctions.”

“Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.”

“So the next day I asked Dan how is it that Bubba can get killed, and what kind of half assed nature law would allow that. He thought about it for a while, and said, 'Well, I'll tell you, Forrest, a...”

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”

“In order to understand what happened, we'll use words in the way that they exist: as drawers of distinction between ideas.”

“But if we decide contextually specific questions of synonymy on the basis of the total semantic range of each word, any synonymy in any context is virtually impossible.”