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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 validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
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
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
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
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Games Struggle Truth
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
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
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
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
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
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
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

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