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The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.

Benjamin Cardozo

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
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
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
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
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
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
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
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
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
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
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk

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