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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
~ Felix Frankfurter ~
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.
~ Walter Lippmann ~
The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.
~ Belva Lockwood ~
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