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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

Benjamin Cardozo

Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
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Danger May Rescue
In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
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Games Struggle Truth
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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Age Constitution Significance
Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.
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Dark Mind Years
There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
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Confidence Giving Judging Philosophy
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
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Decision Justice Taken
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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Honesty Honor Sensitive
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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Errors Growth Ingredient
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
No judicial system could do society’s work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.
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Issue Judicial Raise Sysdtem

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