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

Benjamin Cardozo

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
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
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
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
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
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
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
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
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
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

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

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