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The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

Benjamin Cardozo

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
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
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Decision Justice Taken
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
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
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
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
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
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
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 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
With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
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Example Hands Humility
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

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