The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of … - Irving Kaufman

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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

Irving Kaufman

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

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The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.

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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.

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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

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No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.

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What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men.

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