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

Benjamin Cardozo

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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Law Limitation Running
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
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 validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
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Confidence Giving Judging Philosophy
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
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
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
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
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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Judging Knights Roaming

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