Our Dangers, As It Seems To Me,

Here I Am An Old Man In A Long Nightgown Making Muffled Noises At People Who May Be No Worse Than I Am.

Political Agitation, By The Passions It Arouses Or The Convictions It Engenders, May In Fact Stimulate Men To The Violation Of The Law. Detestation Of Existing Policies Is Easily Transformed Into Forcible Resistance Of The Authority Which Puts Them In Execution, And It Would Be Folly To Disregard The Causal Relation Between The Two. Yet To Assimilate Agitation, Legitimate As Such, With Direct Incitement To Violent Resistance, Is To Disregard The Tolerance Of All Methods Of Political Agitation Which In Normal Times Is A Safeguard Of Free Government.

Liberty Is So Much Latitude As The Powerful Choose To Accord To The Weak.

Conservative Political Opinion In America Cleaves To The Tradition Of The Judge As Passive Interpreter, Believing That His Absolute Loyalty To Authoritative Law Is The Price Of His Immunity From Political Pressure And Of The Security Of His Tenure.

Right Knows No Boundaries, And Justice No Frontiers; The Brotherhood Of Man Is Not A Domestic Institution.