But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hear… - Oliver Wendell Holmes

My old formula is that a man should be an enthusiast in the front of his head and a sceptic in the back. Do his damndest without believing that the cosmos would collapse if he failed. One should have the same courage for failure that many have for death.

The major premise of the conclusion expressed in a statute, the change of policy that induces the enactment, may not be set out in terms, but it is not an adequate discharge of duty for courts to say: We see what you are driving at, but you have not said it, and therefore we shall go on as before.

Courts are apt to err by sticking too closely to the words of a law where those words import a policy that goes beyond them.