The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
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Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.
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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
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To some lawyers all facts are created equal.
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