"History is a vast early warning system."

"History is philosophy teaching by example."

"Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds."

"One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment."

"Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back."

"I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally."

"Even the Germans did not succeed in doing the damage you propose to do."

"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."

"I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations."

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."