“I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses.”

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.

The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.

To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.

Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration.

To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile.

Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

The revolution of tenderness begins in the heart of the family.

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

Communism begins where atheism begins.

You can’t realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Our visions begin with our desires.