The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOThe final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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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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Law never is, but is always about to be.
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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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Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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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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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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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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We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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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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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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