What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which … - Learned Hand

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. [...] As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, although their words are by far the most decisive evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.

A wise man once said, "Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through."

If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.