The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

Little did he know what was going on behind the scenes.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.