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

Benjamin Cardozo

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.
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Dark Mind Years
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
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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Equality Erosion Liberty

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