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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

Benjamin Cardozo

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
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity – please observe, a plodding mediocrity – for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
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Distance Doe Joy
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
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 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
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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 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
No judicial system could do society’s work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.
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Issue Judicial Raise Sysdtem
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
Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.
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Balance Fairness Justice
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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Danger May Rescue

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

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