The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOFraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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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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The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
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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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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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It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.
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We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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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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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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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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The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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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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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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