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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.

Benjamin Cardozo

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 final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
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
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
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
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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Age Constitution Significance
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
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
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
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 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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Confidence Giving Judging Philosophy
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

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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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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