49 Quotes by David Souter

Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce.

History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.

I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.

I find the workload of what I do sufficiently great that when the term of court starts, I undergo a sort of annual intellectual lobotomy.

In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.

Meaning comes from the capacity to see what is not in some simple, objective sense there on the printed page.

Murder has foreseeable consequences. When it happens, it is always to distinct individuals, and after it happens, other victims are left behind.

The Brady Act was passed in response to what Congress described as an 'epidemic of gun violence.'

The day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body.