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No judicial system could do society’s work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.

Benjamin Cardozo

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, 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
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
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
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
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
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
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
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
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
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
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

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