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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.

Benjamin Cardozo

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
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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Equality Erosion Liberty
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
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
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
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
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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Age Constitution Significance
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
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
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 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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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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