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Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

Benjamin Cardozo

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 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
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
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
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
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
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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Errors Growth Ingredient
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
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

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