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

Benjamin Cardozo

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
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 risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
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
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
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
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
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 difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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Honesty Honor Sensitive

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