There can be no security where there is fear.

Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed.

We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy that represents an element of continuity in law and is rooted in the psychological need to satisfy reasonable expectations.

While it is not always profitable to analogize "fact" to "fiction," La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.