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

Benjamin Cardozo

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
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
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
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
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 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 risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
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
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
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes

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

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