Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOIt 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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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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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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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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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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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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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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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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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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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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