Today on Law Day, we pause from our busy routines to celebrate our nations faith in the rule of law and the liberties we so dearly cherish. And we reaffirm the ideals of equality and justice that are the roots of our national prosperity.
While we enjoy the freedoms guaranteed to us by our Constitution, we cannot take for granted that the continued vitality of those freedoms — the very life of those freedoms — depends on the active engagement of each of us. Those who are privileged to call ourselves lawyers have a special duty as the gatekeepers of justice to participate in preserving what we hold so dear.
