It (government) is neither business nor technology nor applied science (It is) one of the subtlest of the arts since it is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic society presupposes confidence and candor in the relations of men with one another and eager collaboration for the larger ends of life instead of the pursuit of petty, selfish or vainglorious aims.
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In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions
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A license cannot be be revoked because a man is red-headed or because he was divorced, except for a calling, if such there be, for which red-headedness or an unbroken marriage may have some rational bearing
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