There Is No Inevitability In History Except

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.

Wisdom Too Often Never Comes, And So One Ought Not To Reject It Merely Because It Comes Late.

A Court Which Yields To The Popular Will Thereby Licenses Itself To Practice Despotism, For There Can Be No Assurance That It Will Not, On Another Occasion, Indulge Its Own Will.

One Is Entitled To Say Without Qualification That The Correlation Between Prior Judicial Experience And Fitness For The Supreme Court Is Zero.

No Office In The Land Is More Important Than That Of Being A Citizen.