The History Of Liberty Has Largely Been

Future Lawyers Should Be More Aware That Law Is Not A System Of Abstract Logic, But The Web Of Arrangements, Rooted In History But Also In Hopes, For Promoting To A Maximum The Full Use Of A Nation's Resources And Talents.

The Indispensible Judicial Requisite Is Intellectual Humility.

A License Cannot Be Revoked Because A Man Is Red-headed Or Because He Was Divorced, Except For A Calling, If Such There Be, For Which Red-headedness Or An Unbroken Marriage May Have Some Rational Bearing. If A State Licensing Agency Lays Bare Its Arbitrary Action, Or If The State Law Explicitly Allows It To Act Arbitrarily, That Is Precisely The Kind Of State Action Which The Due Process Clause Forbids.

Government Is Itself An Art, One Of The Subtlest Of The Arts. It Is Neither Business, Nor Technology, Nor Applied Science. It Is The Art Of Making Men Live Together In Peace And With Reasonable Happiness.

Fragile As Reason Is And Limited As Law Is As The Institutionalised Medium Of Reason, That's All We Have Between Us And The Tyranny Of Mere Will And The Cruelty Of Unbridled, Undisciplined Feelings.