"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."

Certainty, Law, Principles, Questions

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"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."

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"Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor."

John Woolman, American Clergyman

Certainty, Purity

"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."

George Eliot, British Author

Certainty, Deed

"Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions."

Thomas Szasz, American Psychologist

Certainty, Doubt, Neurosis, Problems

"To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting."

Stanislaus I, Polish Royalty

Certainty,

"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Certainty, Doubt, Jealousy, Madness

"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Certainty, Man, Vice

"I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion."

Phil Donahue, American Entertainer

Certainty, Devotion, Doubt, Rebellion

"Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it."

Sibel Edmonds, American Public Servant

Certainty, Chance

"One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Certainty,

"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

Certainty, Man, Woman

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"Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry."

Men

"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution."

Constitution

"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."

Privilege

"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company."

Company

"While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty."

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"Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation."

Action

"In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law."

Time

"The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully."

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"Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day."

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"The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known."

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