Scans of the Supreme Court Wisdom Series Collection

"The need is great that courts be criticized but just as great that they be allowed to do their duty."

"It is the province of a court to expound the law, not to make it."

"If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."

"Individuals are not the creatures of the State, but constitute it. They come into society with rights which cannot be invaded without injustice."

"The judiciary is in a high sense the guardian of the conscience of the people as well as of the law of the land."

"The interest of the United States in a criminal prosecution "...is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done..."