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

Benjamin Cardozo

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
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
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
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 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
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
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
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
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
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
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
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk

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