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.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOIt 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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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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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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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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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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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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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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Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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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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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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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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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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