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

Benjamin Cardozo

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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Finding Illusion Mind Peace
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
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
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.
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Equality Erosion Liberty
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
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Law Limitation Running
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
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
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
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Example Hands Humility
History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
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Judging Justice Law

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