The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.”

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

When the [Supreme] Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions