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

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

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

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts.

There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.

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

You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

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.

We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.

If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

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

Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place.

If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

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

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

I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional. All provisions of federal state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.

Paradox with him was only truth standing on its head to attract attention

I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man's failures.

If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.

Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of time appearing as a media ethicist on both CNN and the cable news networks of NBC.

In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.