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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

Benjamin Cardozo

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
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
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
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
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
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
In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
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Games Struggle Truth
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
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
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense

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