if one of two or more joint wrongdoers has to pay all the damages, he cannot recover contribution from his fellows. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.

Greatness is not in where we stand but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it — but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

But as precedents survive like the clavicle in the cat, long after the use they once served is at an end, and the reason for them has been forgotten, the result of following them must often be failure and confusion from the merely logical point of view.