The interpretation of constitutional principles must not be too literal. We must remember that the machinery of government would not work if it were … - Oliver Wendell Holmes

One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race. The practice of it, in spite of popular jests, tends to make good citizens and good men.

The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by.