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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

Benjamin Cardozo

Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
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Danger May Rescue
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
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
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
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
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. 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
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
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
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity – please observe, a plodding mediocrity – for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
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Distance Doe Joy
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
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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Errors Growth Ingredient
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

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