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

Benjamin Cardozo

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
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
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
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
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
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
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
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Judging Justice Law
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
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
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
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

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