There Is No Inevitability In History Except

There Is Torture Of Mind As Well As Body; The Will Is As Much Affected By Fear As By Force. And There Comes A Point Where This Court Should Not Be Ignorant As Judges Of What We Know As Men.

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.

Freedom Of Expression Is The Well-spring Of Our Civilization... The History Of Civilization Is In Considerable Measure The Displacement Of Error Which Once Held Sway As Official Truth By Beliefs Which In Turn Have Yielded To Other Truths. Therefore The Liberty Of Man To Search For Truth Ought Not To Be Fettered, No Matter What Orthodoxies He May Challenge.

After All, Advocates, Including Advocates For States, Are Like Managers Of Pugilistic And Election Contestants In That They Have A Propensity For Claiming Everything.

I Know Of No Title That I Deem More Honorable Than That Of Professor Of The Harvard Law School.