The Validity Of A Tax Depends Upon

What Has Once Been Settled By A Precedent Will Not Be Unsettled Overnight, For Certainty And Uniformity Are Gains Not Lightly Sacrificed. Above All Is This True When Honest Men Have Shaped Their Conduct On The Faith Of The Pronouncement.

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.

Fraud Includes The Pretense Of Knowledge When Knowledge There Is None.

History, In Illuminating The Past, Illuminates The Present, And In Illuminating The Present, Illuminates The Future.

There Is In Each Of Us A Stream Of Tendency, Whether You Choose To Call It Philosophy Or Not, Which Gives Coherence And Direction To Thought And Action. Judges Cannot Escape That Current Any More Than Other Mortals.