We Have Enjoyed So Much Freedom For

No Judge Writes On A Wholly Clean Slate.

We Forget That The Most Successful Statesmen Have Been Professionals. Lincoln Was A Professional Politician.

It Is Important Not To Give The Appearance Of A Predisposed Mind. And It Is More Important Not To Let The Mind Become Predisposed.

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.

Anybody Can Decide A Question If Only A Single Principle Is In Controversy.