Quotes from Arthur Goldberg

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.

You cannot rectify every real or alleged wrong immediately. Time must enter into the picture.

The trick is to be there when it's settled.

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.

The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to do harm to himself.