Quotes About Lewis Powell

#1. Justice Lewis Powell spoke for all of us when he said: Equal justice under law is perhaps the most inspiring idea of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists.

Edward Kennedy

#2. I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable.

James Lipton

#3. Soccer forces life to move on. There's always a new match. A new season. There's always a dream that everything can get better. It's a game of wonders.

Fredrik Backman

#4. I don't believe I've ever met a homosexual.

Lewis F. Powell Jr.

#5. The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal.

Lewis F. Powell Jr.

#6. The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity owned by the very rich and managed by overpaid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that 'business' actually embraces - in one way or another - most Americans.

Lewis F. Powell Jr.

#7. A soul that is transformed by principles exudes holiness and a sense of pureness that is beyond our imagination.

Garey Gordon

#8. I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.

Lewis F. Powell Jr.

#9. Perhaps the single most effective antagonist of American business is Ralph Nader, who - thanks largely to the media - has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of Americans.

Lewis F. Powell Jr.

#10. Everything is unknown until you discover it!

C.S. Yelle

#11. An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey.

Lewis F. Powell Jr.

#12. I was a complete loon, but I don't regret a bit of it.

Rhona Mitra

#13. History balances the frustration of 'how far we have to go' with the satisfaction of 'how far we have come.' It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.

Lewis F. Powell Jr.

#14. Effort should be made to see that the forum-type programs (the 'Today Show,' 'Meet the Press,' etc.) afford at least as much opportunity for supporters of the American system to participate as these programs do for those who attack it.

Lewis F. Powell Jr.

#15. Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas.

Lewis F. Powell Jr.