Expectations Quote by Felix Frankfurter

I think justices of all stripes agree that stare decisis is important, but not an inextricable command. It's not inflexible; it's not absolute.

— Brett Kavanaugh

Stare decisis, which is the principle that the Supreme Court uses at the outset - the sort of background rule of judicial maintenance or…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We must abandon our belief that human choice denigrates the Rule of Law.”

— Philip K. Howard

In any civil society, there's a serious problem when confidence in the rule of law is shaken.

— Margaret Hoover

The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“the fundamental fact that law directs the ongoing of society. It is rooted in the past, determines the present, and protects the future.”

— James A. Michener

“The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort…

— Barack Obama

“as I begIn my journey away from the law life, you should know, or already have figured out, that I think the law looms…

— Mark Shaiken

“It is not law, in any conceivable form, that is responsible for the tensions and alienation besetting modern man; rather, it is the increasing…

— René Girard

“ Law is not as disinterested as our concepts of law pretend; law serves power; law in large measure is a recapitulation of the…

— William Sloane Coffin

The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes,…

— H. L. Mencken