I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage. |
I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough. |
If the function of this Court is to be essentially no different from that of a legislature, if the considerations governing constitutional construction are to be substantially those that underlie legislation, then indeed judges should not have life |
In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions |
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people. |
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals |
It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach. |
It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow. |
It simply is not true that war never settles anything |
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today. |
Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess. |
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. |
Ours is an accusational and not an inquisitorial system - a system in which the state must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured and may not by coercion prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth |
Ours is an accusational and not an inquisitorial system - a system in which the state must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured and may not by coercion prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth |
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression |