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Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

Benjamin Cardozo

Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO

Dark Mind Years
Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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Honesty Honor Sensitive
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
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
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 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
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
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
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
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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Judging Knights Roaming
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
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity – please observe, a plodding mediocrity – for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
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Distance Doe Joy

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

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