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Benjamin Cardozo

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
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Decision Justice Taken
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
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
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 validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
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
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes

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