“Rules of conduct which govern men in their relations to one another are being applied in an ever-increasing degree to nations. The battlefield as a place of settlement of disputes is gradually yielding to arbitral courts of justice.” MenWorldNationsJusticeDegreesRelationCourtDisputesBattlefieldsSettlement Author:William Howard Taft
“We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary. We don't feel that in 1964, living in a country that is supposedly based upon freedom, and supposedly the leader of the free world, we don't think that we should have to sit around and wait for some segregationist congressmen and senators and a President from Texas in Washington, D.C., to make up their minds that our people are due now some degree of civil rights. No, we want it now or we don't think anybody should have it.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantFeelsShouldMindMeanCountryWaitingPresidentJusticeLeaderRightsDegreesShould HaveDuesCivil RightsTexasSenatorsCongressmanFree World Book:By any means necessary Source: By any means necessary
“We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect disinterestedness in its exercise, nor become complacent about a particular degree of interest and passion which corrupt the justice by which the exercise of power is legitimatized.” BelieveActionPassionNationsInterestJusticePerfectParticularOughtExerciseCivilizationDegreesCapablePreservesComplacent Book:The Irony of American History Source: The Irony of American History
“What finally emerges from the 'clear and present danger' cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious and the degree of imminence extremely high before utterances can be punished...It must be taken as a command of the broadest scope that explicit language, read in the context of a liberty-loving society, will allow.” EvilLanguageJusticeLibertyPrinciplesCasesTakenClearDangerSeriousDegreesConstitutionCommandScopeUtteranceExplicit Author:Hugo Black