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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

Benjamin Cardozo

Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO

Helping May Statutes
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
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
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
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
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
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
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
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
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
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
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege

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