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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

Benjamin Cardozo

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
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
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
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Gain Honesty Men
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
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
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
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Law Limitation Running
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
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

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

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