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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.

Benjamin Cardozo

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
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
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
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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Justice Mind Ordinary
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
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
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
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
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
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
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

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