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

Benjamin Cardozo

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
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
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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Eternity Eye Prophet
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
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
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
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
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
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity – please observe, a plodding mediocrity – for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
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Distance Doe Joy
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
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
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
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
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

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