For The Highest Exercise Of Judicial Duty

A Phrase Begins Life As A Literary Expression; Its Felicity Leads To Its Lazy Repetition, And Repetition Soon Establishes It As A Legal Formula, Undiscriminatingly Used To Express Different And Sometimes Contradictory Ideas.

Ultimately There Can Be No Freedom For Self Unless It Is Vouchsafed For Others; There Can Be No Security Where There Is Fear, And A Democratic Society Presupposes Confidence And Candor In The Relations Of Men With One Another And Eager Collaboration For The Larger Ends Of Life Instead Of The Pursuit Of Petty, Selfish Or Vainglorious Aims.

It Is Hostile To A Democratic System To Involve The Judiciary In The Politics Of The People.

There Is Torture Of Mind As Well As Body; The Will Is As Much Affected By Fear As By Force. And There Comes A Point Where This Court Should Not Be Ignorant As Judges Of What We Know As Men.

I Know Of No Title That I Deem More Honorable Than That Of Professor Of The Harvard Law School.