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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.

Benjamin Cardozo

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
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
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
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
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
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
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
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
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
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
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks

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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