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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

Benjamin Cardozo

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
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
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Danger May Rescue
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
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
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
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
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
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
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
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

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

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