[Judges are supposed to use all this power to make sure that justice is done, that at some basic level the verdicts issued in their courts display a certain degree of reasonableness.] The judge, ... is under a duty, within the limits of his powers of innovation, to maintain a relation between law and morals, between the precepts of jurisprudence and those of reason and good conscience. |
Consequences cannot alter statues, but may help to fix their meaning. |
Existing rules and principles can give us our present location, our bearings, our latitude and longitude. The inn that shelters for the night is not the journey's end. The law, like the traveler, must be ready for the morrow. It must have a principle of growth. |
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom |
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life. |
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. |
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. |
Law never is, but is always about to be |
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions |
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more. |
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience. |
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience. |
The difference is no less real because it is of degree |
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities. |
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed |