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Thou shalt not ration justice.
The art of publicity is a black art.
A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.
Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.
Since we are men, we will play the part of Man.
Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.
The public needs the equivalent of Chevrolets as well as Cadillacs.
Seldom, if ever, does wisdom come, shall we punish it if it comes late?
The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.
The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.
There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.
Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it.
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.
The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.
A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.
If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.
We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.
If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.
The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned upon when he wins.
Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.
Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.
The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.
The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.
Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.
In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal
Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.
Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know.
Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.
The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.
The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... .
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.
Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.
A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.
We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake “the intolerable labor of thought” — that most distasteful of all our activities.
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.
For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.
Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions.
There is no fury like that against one who, we fear, may succeed in making us disloyal to beliefs we hold with passion, but have not really won.
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.
For, when all is said, as my friend George Rublee likes to put it, the only success is to be a success as a person; and it is still not too late for that.