"Get down, you fool!"

"But as precedents survive like the clavicle in the cat, long after the use they once served is at an end, and the rea…"

"It is the merit of the common law that it decides the case first and determines the principle afterwards."

"The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience... The law embodies the story of a nation's developmen…"

"The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be do…"

"State interference is an evil, where it cannot be shown to be a good."

"It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, t…"

"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of h…"

"We know that, if the armies of our war did anything worth remembering, the credit belongs not mainly to the individua…"

"There are not infrequent times when a bottle of wine, a good dinner, a girl of some trivial sort can fill the hour fo…"