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• Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct.
  Now I saw that one man was to be bound by it, but the other was not, one was to obey a rule, the other was to assert an arbitrary wish -- his need -- and the law was to stand on the side of the wish....
• On the night of the tenth of May[1940], at the outset of this mighty battle
  I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs....
• The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is always right.
  -- Judge Learned Hand...
• Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel
  and fitter for new projects than for settled business....
• Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel
  and fitter for new projects than for settled business....
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back
  May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again may God hold you in the palm of his hand -- An old Irish saying....
• America is a stronger nation for the ACLU's uncompromising effort.
  -- President John F. Kennedy The simple rights, the civil liberties from generations of struggle must not be just fine words for patriotic holidays, words we subvert on weekdays, but living, honored rules of conduct amongst us....
• We may give advice, but we cannot inspire the conduct. (Maxim 378)