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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

Benjamin Cardozo

Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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 risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
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
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
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 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
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
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
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

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