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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

Benjamin Cardozo

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
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 heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
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
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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Balance Fairness Justice
The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
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Judging Men Tides
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
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
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
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law

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