The first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the community, whether right or wr… - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about — you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer — and therefore, when differences are sufficiently far reaching, we try to kill the other man rather than let him have his way. But that is perfectly consistent with admitting that, so far as appears, his grounds are just as good as ours.

A second class mind, but a first class temperament.

Every man has a right to do what he wills, provided he interferes not with a like right on the part of his neighbors.