succession quotes

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

I figure I’ll be champ for about ten years and then I’ll let my brother take over – like the Kennedys down in Washington.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me… but a man like David Souter, that would be great.