Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none. - Benjamin N. Cardozo

Bills of rights give assurance to the individual of the preservation of his liberty. They do not define the liberty they promise.

What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.