The Judge Is Not The Knight-errant, Roaming

With Traps And Obstacles And Hazards Confronting Us On Every Hand, Only Blindness Or Indifference Will Fail To Turn In All Humility, For Guidance Or For Warning, To The Study Of Examples.

The Risk To Be Percieved Defines The Duty To Be Obeyed.

More Truly Characteristic Of Dissent Is A Dignity, An Elevation, Of Mood And Thought And Phrase. Deep Conviction And Warm Feeling Are Saying Their Last Say With Knowledge That The Cause Is Lost. The Voice Of The Majority May Be That Of Force Triumphant, Content With The Plaudits Of The Hour, And Recking Little Of The Morrow. The Dissenter Speaks To The Future, And His Voice Is Pitched To A Key That Will Carry Through The Years.

Consequences Cannot Alter Statutes, But May Help To Fix Their Meaning.

Justice Is Not To Be Taken By Storm. She Is To Be Wooed By Slow Advances. Substitute Statute For Decision, And You Shift The Center Of Authority, But Add No Quota Of Inspired Wisdom.