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What Becomes Decisive To A Justice's Functioning On The Court In The Large Area Within Which His Individuality Moves Is His General Attitude Toward Law, The Habits Of The Mind That He Has Formed Or Is Capable Of Unforming, His Capacity For Detachment, His Temperament Or Training For Putting His Passion Behind His Judgment Instead Of In Front Of It. The Attitudes And Qualities Which I Am Groping To Characterize Are Ingredients Of What Compendiously Might Be Called Dominating Humility.

There Can Be No Security Where There Is Fear.

For The Highest Exercise Of Judicial Duty Is To Subordinate One's Personal Pulls And One's Private Views To The Law Of Which We Are All Guaradians - Those Impersonal Convictions That Made A Society A Civilized Community, And Not The Victims Of Personal Rule.

Liberty Of Thought Soon Shrivels Without Freedom Of Expression. Nor Can Truth Be Pursued In An Atmosphere Hostile To The Endeavor Or Under Dangers Which Are Hazarded Only By Heroes.

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.