The Hand That Rules The

Bipartisan Democracy Presupposes The Individual, Whose Welfare Is Identical With That Of The Community In Which He Lives, The Absence Of Coherent Social Classes, A Basic Uniformity Of Interest Throughout.

If A Community Decides That Some Conduct Is Prejudicial To Itself, And So Decides By Numbers Sufficient To Impose Its Will Upon Dissenters, I Know Of No Principle Which Can Stay Its Hand.

The Judge's Authority Depends Upon The Assumption That He Speaks With The Mouth Of Others. That Is To Say, The Momentum Of His Utterances Must Be Greater Than Any Which His Personal Reputation And Character Can Command, If It Is To Do The Work Assigned To It - If It Is To Stand Against The Passionate Resentments Arising Out Of The Interests He Must Frustrate - For While A Judge Must Discover Some Composition With The Dominant Trends Of His Times, He Must Preserve His Authority By Cloaking Himself In The Majesty Of An Overshadowing Past.

No Doubt One May Quote History To Support Any Cause, As The Devil Quotes Scripture; But Modern History Is Not A Very Satisfactory Side-arm In Political Polemics; It Grows Less And Less So.

Convention Is Like The Shell To The Chick, A Protection Till He Is Strong Enough To Break It Through.