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Justice Is Not To Be Taken By Storm. She Is To Be Wooed By Slow Advances. Substitute Statute For Decision, And You Shift The Center Of Authority, But Add No Quota Of Inspired Wisdom.

Justice, Though Due To The Accused, Is Due The Accuser Also. The Concept Of Fairness Cannot Be Strained Till It Is Narrowed To A Filament. We Are To Keep Our Balance True.

The Judge Is Not The Knight-errant, Roaming At Will In Pursuit Of His Own Ideal Of Beauty Or Of Goodness.

In Truth, I Am Nothing But A Plodding Mediocrity — Please Observe, A Plodding Mediocrity — For A Mere Mediocrity Does Not Go Very Far, But A Plodding One Gets Quite A Distance. There Is Joy In That Success, And A Distinction Can Come From Courage, Fidelity And Industry.

The Constitution Was Framed Upon The Theory That The Peoples Of The Several States Must Sink Or Swim Together, And That In The Long Run Prosperity And Salvation Are In Union And Not Division.