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Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.

Benjamin Cardozo

There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
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Confidence Giving Judging Philosophy
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
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
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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Danger May Rescue
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
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
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
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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Long Running Swim
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
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
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
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity

Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.

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