Word: ares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Detective Lippmann's analysis of Franklin Roosevelt's motives: "Last year, when his party was split, his personal prestige at low ebb ... I should imagine that he may have considered seriously making a fight for a third nomination. . . . But now the situation has been changed, not by the...
"Sonny, that fellow is on the other side but I admire him more than any other man. That man is a monolith. There are no seams that the frost can get through. He is of one piece."
In a characteristic judicial opinion he wrote: "Should all the rewards which are due to foresight, wisdom and enterprise of the men who conceived and constructed wisely be transferred by legislative authority to others?"
In pre-New Deal days, Justice Holmes, reading an 8-to-1 decision holding constitutional a Virginia law requiring sterilization of third-generation defectives, dryly noted, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough. Justice Butler dissents."
Few rituals in U. S. life hit so hard, go so deep, are so unsparing and dramatic as the disbarring of a prominent lawyer. Disbarment is to the lawyer what being read out of meeting was to the New England villager. It is a judgment that a man who has...