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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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Decisions of this Court do not have intrinsic authority.
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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
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The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility.
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In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.
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To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
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Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
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Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.
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After all, this is the Nation's ultimate judicial tribunal, not a super-legal-aid bureau.
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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
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The [Fifteenth] Amendment nullifies sophisticated as well as simple-minded modes of discrimination.
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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.
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The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
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It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account... of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
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In any event, mere speed is not a test of justice. Deliberate speed is. Deliberate speed takes time. But it is time well spent.
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Holmes said Emerson had a beautiful voice, and, of course, Holmes had one of the most beautiful voices the Lord ever put into a throat.
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One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.
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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
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In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives.
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The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.
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The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.
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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
Charles Dudley Warner
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Born:
November 15, 1882
Died:
February 22, 1965
(aged 82)
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