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Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.

Benjamin Cardozo

Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
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
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
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Law Limitation Running
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
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
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
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
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
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
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
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
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
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

Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.

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