1. “The aim of law is the maximum gratification of he nervous system of man.”
2. “Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.”
3. “If we are to keep democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.”
4. “All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.”
5. “Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.”
6. “Life is made up of series of judgements on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.”
7. “In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.”
8. “The spirit of liberty is spirit that is not quite sure it is right.”
9. “The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.”
10. “Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.”
11. “The hand that rules the pres, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.”
12. “The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.”
13. “The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.”
14. “We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of iertia and the irksomeness of action.”
15. “There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.”
16. “Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.”
17. “Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.”
18. “Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.”
19. “The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.”
20. “There is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.”
21. “There is no fury like that against one who, we fear, ay succeed in making us disloyal to beliefs we hold with passion, but have not really won.”
22. “A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.”
23. “Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.”
24. “No doubt one may quote history to support a cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.”
25. “The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned upon when he wins.”
26. “Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor an creator and another can use it only as a mask.”
27. “The art of publicity is a black art.”
28. “A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.”
29. “Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.”
30. “If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon dissenters, I know of no principle which can stay its hand.”
