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

Benjamin Cardozo

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
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 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
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
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
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
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
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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
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
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
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source

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