Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOI take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Law never is, but is always about to be.
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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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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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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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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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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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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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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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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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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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