The Risk To Be Percieved Defines The

Every Human Being Of Adult Years And Sound Mind Has A Legal Right To Determine What Shall Be Done With His Own Body.

It Is For Ordinary Minds, Not For Psychoanalysts, That Our Rules Of Evidence Are Framed. They Have Their Source Very Often In Considerations Of Administrative Convenience, Or Practical Expediency, And Not In Rules Of Logic.

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.

I Take Judge-made Law As One Of The Existing Realities Of Life.

No Judicial System Could Do Society's Work If Each Issue Had To Be Decided Afresh In Every Case Which Raised It.