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

Benjamin Cardozo

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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Eternity Eye Prophet
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
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 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
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
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
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
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 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
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
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Judging Justice Law
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality

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

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