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The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

Benjamin Cardozo

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
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
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 validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
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
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 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
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
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
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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