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

Benjamin Cardozo

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
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
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
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
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
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
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
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
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
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
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.
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Equality Erosion Liberty
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real

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