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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one. - [Answers] Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy. - [Questions] Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate. - [Elections] Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling. - [Reason] Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but also in hopes, for promoting to a maximum the full use of a nation's resources and talents. - in an address to the College of the City of New York, September, 30, 1942 [Law : Lawyers] It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. - [Equality] It simply is not true that war never settles anything. - [War] Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. - [Old Age] The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. - [Capitalism] To some lawyers, all facts are created equal. - [Facts] Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. - [Wisdom]
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