When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism . . . The only way to react is to get up in the morning and start the day by saying four or five vastly politically incorrect things before breakfast!

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.

the unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven.

What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.

All these problems [deciding cases] are easier for people who believe in God. Those of us who don't or can't have to do the best we can. That's what the law is, the best we can do. Human justice is imperfect, but it's the only justice we have.

Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.

we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.