"You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch."

"I think it very uncivilized to invade British territory. You are here illegally."

"It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition."

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.""

"The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me."

"The field of combat was a long, narrow, green-baize covered table. The weapons were words."

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