A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.

Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.

Each one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to the wayward vagaries of popular assemblies 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 I should miss the stimulus of living in a society where I have, at least theoretically, some part in the direction of public affairs.

If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon dissenters, I know of no principle which can stay its hand.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.