Court Justice Felix Frankfurter Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. vs. U.S. 57 USPQ 471. It would not be difficult to cite many instances of patents that have been granted, improperly I think, and without adequate tests of invention by the Patent Office. But I doubt that the remedy for such Patent Office passion for granting patents is an equally strong passion in this court for striking them down so that the only patent that is valid is one which this court has not been able to get its hands on. I agree with the opinion of Judge Learned Hand below. An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage concludes it will also make a better soup.
Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone. There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. It was not my intention to advocate dishonesty in argument nor a bad spirit in a controversy. No truth is without some mixture of error, and no error so false that it posseses some elements of truth.