“ Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. ”
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
~ Felix Frankfurter
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.
To some lawyers all facts are created equal.
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.
