Judge Talent At Its Best And Character

We Are Not Sure We Are Right Until We Have Made The Best Case Possible For Those Who Are Wrong.

Far From Being The Product Of A Democratic Revolution And Of An Opposition To English Institutions, The Constitution Of The United States Was The Result Of A Powerful Reaction Against Democracy, And In Favor Of The Traditions Of The Mother Country.

Fanaticism In Religion Is The Alliance Of The Passions She Condemns With The Dogmas She Professes.

A Government Does Not Desire Its Powers To Be Strictly Defined, But The Subjects Require The Line To Be Drawn With Increasing Precision.

I Saw In States' Rights The Only Availing Check Upon The Absolutism Of The Sovereign Will, And Secession Filled Me With Hope, Not As The Destruction But As The Redemption Of Democracy.... Therefore I Deemed That You Were Fighting The Battles Of Our Liberty, Our Progress, And Our Civilization, And I Mourn For The Stake Which Was Lost At Richmond More Deeply Than I Rejoice Over That Which Was Saved At Waterloo.