To the somnambulist, sleep-walking may seem more pleasant and less hazardous than wakeful walking, but the latter is the wiser mode of locomotion in the congested traffic of a modern community. It is about time to abandon judicial somnambulism.
Justice is what the judge ate for breakfast. - Jerome Frank
Justice is what the judge ate for breakfast.
- Jerome Frank
Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since the… - Jerome Frank
Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since the…
Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient. - Jerome Frank
Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient.
Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial. - Jerome Frank
Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.
Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases … - Jerome Frank
Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases …
The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless. - Jerome Frank
The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.
The inexpressible is the only thing that is worthwhile. - Jerome Frank
The inexpressible is the only thing that is worthwhile.
Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. - Jerome Frank
Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization.
We want no dictatorship of physicists, as physicists. If our democracy is to realize its full promise, we want no dictatorship at all - of any specie… - Jerome Frank
We want no dictatorship of physicists, as physicists. If our democracy is to realize its full promise, we want no dictatorship at all - of any specie…
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