"I am extremely critical. I am seriously wondering whether we are taking ourselves and our values seriously or if we are throwing them overboard."

"To Brandeis, as to Jefferson, the key to a successful democracy lies in the spirit, the vitality, the daring, the inventiveness of its citizens."

"Whether we shall continue to be a Government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people"

"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. . . . Certainly it would be difficult to imagine any committee of relatively young men, of thirty or thirty-five, sho…"

"Development means a capacity for self-sustaining growth. It means that an economy must register advances which in turn will promote further progress. The loss of industry and skill in Africa was extre…"