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

Benjamin Cardozo

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
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
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
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
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
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Judging Justice Law
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
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
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
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

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