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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
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
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
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 generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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Age Constitution Significance
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
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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Gain Honesty Men
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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Judging Knights Roaming
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
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

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