The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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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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