Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO
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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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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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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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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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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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What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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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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Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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