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The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

Benjamin Cardozo

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 difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
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 risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
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
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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Judging Knights Roaming
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
No judicial system could do society’s work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.
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Issue Judicial Raise Sysdtem
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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Confidence Giving Judging Philosophy
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
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
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
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
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes

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