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

Benjamin Cardozo

It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.
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Justice Mind Ordinary
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
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 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 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
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
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
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
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
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
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

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