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

Benjamin Cardozo

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
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
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
No judicial system could do society’s work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.
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Issue Judicial Raise Sysdtem
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 validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
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
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
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 difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
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
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
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
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Judging Justice Law

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

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