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“What becomes decisive to a Justice's functioning on the Court in the large area within which his individuality moves is his general attitude toward law, the habits of the mind that he has formed or is capable of unforming, his capacity for detachment, his temperament or training for putting his passion behind his judgment instead of in front of it. The attitudes and qualities which I am groping to characterize are ingredients of what compendiously might be called dominating humility.”

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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

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The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.

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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

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The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.

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