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I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.

Oliver Edwards

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Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, by James Boswell

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Edwards, Oliver. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 17 Apr. 1778.

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Edwards, Oliver. Quoted in Life of Samuel Johnson. Written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.

Louis Brandeis

Jay Burns Baking Co. vs. Bryan

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Brandeis, Louis. Dissenting Opinion. Jay Burns Baking Co. v. Bryan. United States Reports, vol. 264, 14 Apr. 1924, pp. 517-534. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/264/504/.

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The offense of riding or going armed, with dangerous or unusual weapons, is a crime against the public peace, by terrifying the good people of the land.

William Blackstone

Commentaries on the Laws of England

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Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Law of England: Book the Fourth. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1769, ch. 11.

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Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book IV Of Public Wrongs, edited by David Lemmings. Oxford University Press, 2016, ch. 11.

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Maybe you can't override prejudice overnight, but the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, ninety-odd years ago. I believe in gradualism. I also believe that ninety-odd years is pretty gradual.

Thurgood Marshall

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Marshall, Thurgood. "Fighting Back: 1957-1962." Eyes on the Prize, created by Henry Hampton, performances by Thurgood Marshall, season 1, episode 2, Blackside, 1987.

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Life is not a thing of knowing only—nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.

Learned Hand

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Hand, Learned. "Class-Day Oration." Commencement. 23 June 1893, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Daniel Webster

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Webster, Daniel. "Remarks Made at Reception." 25 Aug. 1835, Bangor, ME, USA.

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General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgement or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Lochner v. New York

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. Dissenting Opinion. Lochner v. New York. United States Reports, vol. 198, 17 Apr. 1905, pp. 74-76. Justia, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/198/45/.

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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.

Learned Hand

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Hand, Learned. "On Receiving an Honorary Degree." Harvard Alumni Bulletin, 7 July 1939.

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What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled over night, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly to be sacrificed.

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Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan. "Stability and Progress." The Paradoxes of Legal Science. Columbia University Press, 1928.

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In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

Harry A. Blackmun

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Regents of University of California v. Bakke

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Blackmun, Harry. United States, Supreme Court. Regents of University of California v. Bakke. United States Reports, vol. 438, 28 June 1978, pp. 265-421. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/438/265/.

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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.

Learned Hand

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Hand, Learned. "Class-Day Oration." Commencement. 23 June 1893, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all agnosticism means.

Clarence Darrow

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Darrow, Clarence. Criminal Court of Tennessee. The State of Tennessee vs. John Thomas Scopes. 21 July 1925.

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The God of nature never intended that Ireland should be a province, and by God she never will.

Thomas Goold

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Goold, Thomas. An Address to the People of Ireland on the Subject of the Projected Union. Dublin: J. Moore, 1799.

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How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

Edward Coke

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Coke, Edward. The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. Or, a Commentarie upon Littleton, Not the Name of a Lawyer Onely, but of the Law it selfe. London: Societe of Stationers, 1628, bk. 1, ch. 10, sect. 80.

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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

Felix Frankfurter

United States v. Rabinowitz

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Frankfurter, Felix. Dissenting Opinion. United States v. Rabinowitz. United States Reports, vol. 339, 20 Feb. 1950, pp. 68-86. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/339/56/.

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Political, social, and economic changes entail the recognition of new rights, and the common law, in its eternal youth, grows to meet the demands of society... Now the right to life has come to mean the right to enjoy life, — the right to be let alone; the right to liberty secures the exercise of extensive civil privileges; and the term "property" has grown to comprise every possession — intangible, as well as tangible.

Louis Brandeis

The Right to Privacy

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Brandeis, Louis D and Samuel D. Warren. "The Right to Privacy." Harvard Law Review, 15 Dec. 1890.

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The Cherokee nation...is a distinct community, occupying its own territory...which the citizens of Georgia have no right to enter but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves, or in conformity with treaties and with the acts of Congress.

John Marshall

Worcester v. Georgia

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Marshall, John. United States, Supreme Court. Worcester v. Georgia. United States Reports, vol. 31, 3 Mar. 1832, pp. 515-597. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/31/515/.

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

Learned Hand

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Hand, Learned. "At Forescore." Harvard University Annual Dinner. 18 Jan. 1952, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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Reason is the life of the law, nay the common law itself is nothing else but reason.

Edward Coke

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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Ramsey Clark

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Clark, Ramsey. Keynote address. American Correctional Association conference. Aug. 1967, Miami Beach, FL, USA.

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