The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOHistory, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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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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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.
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Law never is, but is always about to be.
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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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It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.
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The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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