The Spirit Of Liberty Is The Spirit

The Language Of The Law Must Not Be Foreign To The Ears Of Those Who Are To Obey It.

It Is Of Course True That Any Kind Of Judicial Legislation Is Objectionable On The Score Of The Limited Interests Which A Court Can Represent, Yet There Are Wrongs Which In Fact Legislatures Cannot Be Brought To Take An Interest In, At Least Not Until The Courts Have Acted.

Seldom, If Ever, Does Wisdom Come, Shall We Punish It If It Comes Late?

If The Prosecution Of Crime Is To Be Conducted With So Little Regard For That Protection Which Centuries Of English Law Have Given To The Individual, We Are Indeed At The Dawn Of A New Era; And Much That We Have Deemed Vital To Our Liberties, Is A Delusion.

Our Dangers, As It Seems To Me, Are Not From The Outrageous But From The Conforming; Not From Those Who Rarely And Under The Lurid Glare Of Obloquy Upset Our Moral Complaisance, Or Shock Us With Unaccustomed Conduct, But From Those, The Mass Of Us, Who Take Their Virtues And Their Tastes, Like Their Shirts And Their Furniture, From The Limited Patterns Which The Market Offers.