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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

Benjamin Cardozo

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
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
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
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
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 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
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
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
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
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
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 difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
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Decision Justice Taken
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

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