The Risk To Be Percieved Defines The

Opinion Has A Significance Proportioned To The Sources That Sustain It.

Inaction Without More Is Not Tantamount To Choice.

What Has Once Been Settled By A Precedent Will Not Be Unsettled Overnight, For Certainty And Uniformity Are Gains Not Lightly Sacrificed. Above All Is This True When Honest Men Have Shaped Their Conduct On The Faith Of The Pronouncement.

The Prophet And The Martyr Do Not See The Hooting Throng. Their Eyes Are Fixed On The Eternities.

History Or Custom Or Social Utility Or Some Compelling Sense Of Justice Or Sometimes Perhaps A Semi-intuitive Apprehension Of The Pervading Spirit Of Our Law Must Come To The Rescue Of The Anxious Judge And Tell Him Where To Go.