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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

Benjamin Cardozo

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
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
Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.
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Balance Fairness Justice
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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Errors Growth Ingredient
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
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
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
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
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 validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
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
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes

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