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Benjamin Cardozo

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
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
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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Errors Growth Ingredient
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
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
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
It 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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Justice Mind Ordinary
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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Gain Honesty Men
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
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 heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
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Games Struggle Truth

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