No Judge Writes On A Wholly Clean

A Court Which Yields To The Popular Will Thereby Licenses Itself To Practice Despotism, For There Can Be No Assurance That It Will Not, On Another Occasion, Indulge Its Own Will.

The Accretion Of Dangerous Power Does Not Come In A Day. It Does Come, However Slowly, From The Generative Force Of Unchecked Disregard Of The Restrictions That Fence In Even The Most Disinterested Assertion Of Authority.

Ambiguity Lurks In Generality, And May Thus Become An Instrument Of Severity.

The Ultimate Touchstone Of Constitutionality Is The Constitution Itself, And Not What We Have Said About It.

The Ultimate Foundation Of A Free Society Is The Binding Tie Of Cohesive Sentiment.