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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Benjamin Cardozo

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
In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
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Games Struggle Truth
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
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
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
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
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
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
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes

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