If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law. — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in… — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted. — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function. — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation. — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and… — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows. — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of… — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or erroneous — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta… — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard. — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
