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Future Lawyers Should Be More Aware That Law Is Not A System Of Abstract Logic, But The Web Of Arrangements, Rooted In History But Also In Hopes, For Promoting To A Maximum The Full Use Of A Nation's Resources And Talents.

It Is A Fair Summary Of History To Say That The Safeguards Of Liberty Have Been Forged In Controversies Involving Not Very Nice People.

If One Starts With The Assumption That, In The Absence Of Specific Congressional Authority, A Fixed Rule Of Law Precludes Contracting Officers From Providing In A Government Contract Terms Reasonably Calculated To Assure Its Performance Even Though There Be No Money Loss Through A Particular Default, There Is No Problem. But Answers Are Not Obtained By Putting The Wrong Question, And Thereby Begging The Real One.

No Office In The Land Is More Important Than That Of Being A Citizen.

The Words Of The Constitution... Are So Unrestricted By Their Intrinsic Meaning Or By Their History Or By Tradition Or By Prior Decisions That They Leave The Individual Justice Free, If Indeed They Do Not Compel Him, To Gather Meaning Not From Reading The Constitution But From Reading Life.