One has to try to strike the jugular and let the rest go. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The law embodies the story of a nation’s development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.

Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.

Now and then, an extraordinary case may turn up, but constitutional law, like other mortal contrivances, has to take some chances, and in the great majority of instances, no doubt, justice will be done.