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

Benjamin Cardozo

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
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
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
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
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 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
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
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
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
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
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
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
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks

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

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