The Public Needs The Equivalent Of Chevrolets

How Long Shall We Blunder Along Without The Aid Of Unpartisan And Authoritative Scientific Assistance In The Administration Of Justice, No One Knows; But All Fair Persons Not Conventionalized By Provincial Legal Habits Of Mind Ought, I Should Think, Unite To Effect Some Change.

All Discussion, All Debate, All Dissidence Tends To Question And In Consequence, To Upset Existing Convictions; That Is Precisely Its Purpose And Its Justification.

There Is No Surer Way To Misread Any Document Than To Read It Literally. As Nearly As We Can, We Must Put Ourselves In The Place Of Those Who Uttered The Words, And Try To Divine How They Would Have Dealt With The Unforeseen Situation; And, Although Their Words Are By Far The Most Decisive Evidence Of What They Would Have Done, They Are By No Means Final.

It Is Often Hard To Secure Unanimity About The Borders Of Legislative Power, But That Is Much Easier Than To Decide How Far A Particular Adjustment Diverges From What The Judges Deem Tolerable. On Such Issues Experience Has Over And Over Again Shown The Difficulty Of Securing Unanimity. This Is Disastrous Because Disunity Cancels The Impact Of Monolithic Solidarity On Which The Authority Of A Bench Of Judges So Largely Depends.

It Is Enough That We Set Out To Mold The Motley Stuff Of Life Into Some Form Of Our Own Choosing; When We Do, The Performance Is Itself The Wage.