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

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
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
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
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
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 final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
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
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
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
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
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
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

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

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