312 quotes found
“The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
“For the rational study of the law the blackletter man may be the man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics.”
“If you want to know the law and nothing else, you must look at it as a bad man, who cares only for the material consequences which such knowledge enables him to predict, not as a good one, who find...”
“When we study law we are not studying a mystery but a well-known profession. We are studying what we shall want in order to appear before judges, or to advise people in such a way as to keep them o...”
“The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.”
“How odious a virtue the much praised simplicity. The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex — not that which never has divined it.”
“One has to try to strike the jugular and let the rest go.”
“Nature has but one judgment on wrong conduct — if you can call that a judgment which seemingly has no reference to conduct as such — the judgment of death.”
“Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.”
“Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of their importance in shaping the law of the future, but because of some accident of immediate overwhelmin...”
“Constitutions are intended to preserve practical and substantial rights, not to maintain theories.”
“I can't help preferring champagne to ditch water — I doubt if the universe does.”
