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

Benjamin Cardozo

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
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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Eternity Eye Prophet
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
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Decision Justice Taken
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
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
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
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
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

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