We Prate Of Freedom; We Are In

The Use Of History Is To Tell Us What We Are, For At Our Birth We Are Nearly Empty Vessels And We Become What Our Tradition Pours Into Us.

A Society In Which Men Recognize No Check Upon Their Freedom Soon Becomes A Society Where Freedom Is The Possession Of Only A Savage Few.

The Language Of The Law Must Not Be Foreign To The Ears Of Those Who Are To Obey It.

Our Common Law Is The Stock Instance Of A Combination Of Custom And Its Successive Adaptations.

There Is No Surer Way To Misread Any Document Than To Read It Literally.