“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”

“The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge...”

“The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.”

“Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are try...”

“Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.”

“A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States help...”

“What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.”

“Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad'...”

“I think some of my darkness comes from my dad. There is definitely convict history on that side of the family, a lot of dodginess....”

“I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greates...”

“We do not need a heavy theoretical thumb on the scales. What's important is how the traditional sources of law and legal interpret...”

“I come from a family that has a long history in the legal community of New York and New York state.”