If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.

'I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken.' I should like to have that written over the portals of every church, every school, and e…

Justice, I think, is the tolerable accomodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accomodatio…

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still; is not this lawful for all prisoners?

This is not a question of expediency, but of right. In antebellum days the proposition was not, Are the blacks good enough to be free? but, Have they the right…

It cannot be too clearly understood that this is not a free country, and it will be an evil day for the legal profession when it is.