The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals. - Felix Frankfurter

The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.

[It is anomalous] to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas.