Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.

The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans' health.

The Founders were anything but demigods to themselves and their contemporaries, who recognized full well that the experiment in self-government had only begun.

I think what I would really most like to write about is palm trees and bougainvillea and hummingbirds. I would like to go into the desert and write about salamanders and the Grand Canyon, but history keeps rupturing my experience because politics are everywhere.