“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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Experience matters.
ReplyDeleteEinstein has often been quoted as saying:
"The only source of knowledge is experience."
"I know of no way of judging the future but by the past." Patrick Henry
ReplyDeleteHe foresaw King Barry...
ReplyDelete"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)
Well said 11:13, well said.
ReplyDeleteGood intentions do not get the job done.
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!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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