Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.

No judicial system could do society's work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.