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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Some Supreme Court Thoughts On Experience:

“The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Source: The Common Law

"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
Justice Louis D. Brandeis US Supreme Court Justice 1928 Source: dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928)

“Often a liberal antidote of experience supplies a sovereign cure for a paralyzing abstraction built apon a theory.”
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo Source: Paradoxes Of Legal

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Experience matters.


Einstein has often been quoted as saying:

"The only source of knowledge is experience."



Anonymous said...

"I know of no way of judging the future but by the past." Patrick Henry

Anonymous said...

He foresaw King Barry...

"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
Justice Louis D. Brandeis US Supreme Court Justice 1928 Source: dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928)

Anonymous said...

Well said 11:13, well said.

Good intentions do not get the job done.

Anonymous said...

I agree that it takes Experience, but it also takes BALLS!!!!! You know balls not to let the PRESIDENT bully you into doing what he wants!!!!

Anonymous said...

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.