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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

Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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
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 final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity – please observe, a plodding mediocrity – for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
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Distance Doe Joy
With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
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Example Hands Humility
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
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
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
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom

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