If a thing has been practised for two hundred years by common consent, it will need a strong case for the Fourteenth Amendment to affect it. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Most of my time is spent in doing as well as I can the work immediately at hand. One hopes that by doing quietly and without parade as solid work as one can when one is occupied, one makes the best contribution possible to one's state.

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 hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

Law, being a practical thing, must found itself on
actual forces. It is quite enough, therefore, for the law, that man, by an instinct which he shares with the domestic dog, and of which the seal gives a most striking example, will not allow himself to be
dispossessed, either by force or fraud, of what he holds, without trying to get it back again.
Philosophy may find a hundred reasons to justify the instinct, but it would be totally immaterial if it
should condemn it and bid us surrender without a murmur.