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

Benjamin Cardozo

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
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
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
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.
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Balance Fairness Justice
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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Judging Knights Roaming
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
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
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom

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