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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

Benjamin Cardozo

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
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
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
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
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
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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Danger May Rescue
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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Justice Mind Ordinary
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
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
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
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
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never

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