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

Benjamin Cardozo

The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity – please observe, a plodding mediocrity – for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
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Distance Doe Joy
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 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 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 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 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
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
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
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
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality

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