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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

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO

Choices Inaction
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.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO

Equality Erosion Liberty
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
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO

Example Hands Humility
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
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 judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO

Judging Knights Roaming
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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