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Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

Benjamin Cardozo

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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Age Constitution Significance
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
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
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
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 heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.
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Balance Fairness Justice
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 final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
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
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
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
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

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