I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

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

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

There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.

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