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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 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
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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
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 prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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Eternity Eye Prophet
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
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
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 difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
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
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk

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

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