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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

Benjamin Cardozo

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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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
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
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
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
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 prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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Eternity Eye Prophet
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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
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
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
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
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

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