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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

Benjamin Cardozo

The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
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
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.
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Justice Storm Taken
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
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, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.
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Long Running Swim
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
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
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
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks

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