Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is the price of his immunity from political pressure and of the security of his tenure.

Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.