Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOOpinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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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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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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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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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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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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Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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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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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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