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I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

Benjamin Cardozo

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
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
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
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
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Example Hands Humility
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
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
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 validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
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
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
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
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk

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