History(163)

"The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me."
Lyndon B. Johnson

"The field of combat was a long, narrow, green-baize covered table. The weapons were words."
C. Turner Joy

"To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks."
Irving R. Kaufman

"What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men."
Irving R. Kaufman

"The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it."
Irving R. Kaufman

"The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society."
Irving R. Kaufman

"We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it."
John F. Kennedy

"History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside."
John F. Kennedy

"If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity."
John F. Kennedy

"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."
John F. Kennedy