Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how misc…

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

When you look closely it is a question whether that which is a wrong to the present community may not prove to have been a right to the interests of posterity.…