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Morals are three-quarters manners.
No court can make time stand still.
No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.
In law also the emphasis makes the song.
There can be no security where there is fear.
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.
Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility.
Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.
Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.
To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
Ambiguity lurks in generality, and may thus become an instrument of severity.
The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.
The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.
It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.
Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.
Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.
It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed.
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.