Word: errors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is a convincing argument. But it would seem to establish a principle (the allowed evasion of questions which if answered might lead to error) by which a man could evade any question he pleases. For error is always possible, and the probability of error is so difficult to assess that the principle would be ineffective unless highly subjective estimations were allowed. Such a principle could actually make the person being examined the judge of the fitness of the court, hence of its authority. And this would seem dangerous to the implementation of justice. This consequence raises doubts concerning...
...cannot be defined. But we can ask a man to risk his life. And we do in time of war. Similarly, we cannot ask a man to establish his own guilt. But we can ask that he risk trial. And we can ask an innocent man to risk judicial error...
...still farther: not only can we ask an innocent man to risk error, but we must ask him. For in no society can the institutions of justice and order be in principle suspect. We cannot allow, let alone underwrite, the questioning of the authority of any duly constituted agency by anyone within its jurisdiction. General MacArthur's notorious pronouncement that he owed allegiance to the Constitution rather than to the Commander-in-Chief was something no society could allow. Allegiance to the Constitution is allegiance to what it authorizes...
...week snow conditions on Mount Washington are about as dangerous now as they possibly can be. In spite of this danger Longenecker and Parysko built their igloo on the exposed floor of Tuckerman ravine directly under the towering cliffs loaded with snow ready to avalance. This was the first error in their conduct, for there are, just a short distance down the mountain from where they camped, several shelters that are in safe locations and are equipped for winter...
...whose shades they so frequently call? They are afraid, apparently, that mistakes will be made, that some future President, Senate, House, and electorate will depart from the political ideas which they deem immutable. Aside from the arrogance of this stand, its rationale, that paralysis is better than risk of error, is appalling. It reflects the same mistrust of power that today makes France the picture of chaos. Even granting that the view of human nature taken by the founding fathers is less than optimistic, the cringing lack of faith in America's institutions and in the judgment of its citizens...