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

Benjamin Cardozo

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
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
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
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
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
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
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
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
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
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

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