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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

Benjamin Cardozo

Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
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
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
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 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
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
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
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
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
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
Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
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Danger May Rescue
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

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