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Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.

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
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
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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Decision Justice Taken
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
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
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Games Struggle Truth
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
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
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
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
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
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
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique

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