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The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

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 final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
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
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
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
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 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
In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
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Games Struggle Truth
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
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
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
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 great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

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