Case Quotes

Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.

In every treaty, insert a clause which can easily be violated, so that the entire agreement can be broken in case the interests of the State make it expedient to do so.

It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn’t eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.

I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

[These books] should be written in a way that they are serious, soberly argued, well researched, and make a respectable case-agree or disagree.

How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.

Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield to the overriding principle of the present Court: The Affordable Care Act must be saved.

Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.