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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 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
There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
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Confidence Giving Judging Philosophy
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
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
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
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 generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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Age Constitution Significance

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