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"You, sir, are fully acquainted with this, and know that men generally judge of everything by prejudice, hearsay, and chance. No one reflects that the cause of a citizen ought to interest the whole body of citizens, and that we may ourselves have to endure in despair the same fate which we perceive, with eyes and feelings of indifference, falling heavily upon him. We write and comment every day upon the judgments passed by the Senate of Rome and the Areopagus of Athens, but we think not for a moment of what passes before our own tribunals."&mdash;.

"Hence our ancient and famous lawyer Bracton, in his first book, chap. viii., 'There is no king in the case,' says he, 'where will rules the roost, and law does not take place.'"&mdash;.

"Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals."&mdash;.

"Being imbedded in the Constitution, it cannot be destroyed except by force strong enough to overthrow the Constitution itself. Legislative enactments or judicial decisions are powerless either to strengthen or impair it. The legerdemain of law, craft, the catches of special pleading, the snapperadoes of practice, do not help us to decide a matter like this."&mdash;.

"My master was yet wholly at a loss to understand what motives could incite this race of lawyers to perplex, disquiet, and weary themselves, and engage in a confederacy of injustice, merely for the sake of injuring their fellow-animals."&mdash;.

"It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice."&mdash;.

"Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming."&mdash;.

"It is in the body politic, as in the natural, those disorders are most dangerous that flow from the head."&mdash;.

student, whom we have recognized as a man of so much ability and of so little pretension, with that artless simplicity which accompanies, with rare exceptions, all forms of true greatness, continuing his inquiries asked the Chief Justice,&mdash; 82