There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOThe great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.
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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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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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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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I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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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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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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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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The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.
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