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Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

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Thou shalt not ration justice.

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It lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

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I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...

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Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.

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The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.

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What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.

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We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned ourselves.

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The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.

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They taught me, not by precept, but by example, that nothing is more commendable, and more fair, than that a man should lay aside all else, and seek truth not to preach what he might find and surely not to try to make his views prevail but, like Lessing, to find his satisfaction in the search itself.

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My vote is one of the most unimportant acts of my life if I were to acquaint myself with the matters on which it ought really to depend, if I were to try to get a judgment on which I was willing to risk affairs of even the smallest moment, I should be doing nothing else, and that seems a fatuous conclusion to a fatuous undertaking.

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If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment Thou shalt not ration justice.

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Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

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In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

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Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needsno constitution, no law, no court to save it.

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Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

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Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

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You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

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I remember he loved the patent cases, ... He used to get the invention involved in the case, take it apart and put it together again. He enjoyed seeing how the apparatus worked. . . . He also enjoyed the admiralty cases. He loved to get models of ships and recreate the circumstances of a collision.

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If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment Thou shalt not ration justice.

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With the courage which only comes of justified self-confidence, he dared to rest his case upon its strongest point, and so avoided that appearance of weakness and uncertainty which comes of a clutter of arguments. Few lawyers are willing to do this it is the mark of the most distinguished talent.

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safeguard of free government.

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A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

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I submit to you that we must press along. Borrowing from Epictetus, let us say to ourselves Since we are men, we will play the part of Man.

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It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing when we do, the performance is itself the wage.

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