Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.
From Learned Hand
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.
We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.
If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
Thou shalt not ration justice.
I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.
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