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I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

Benjamin Cardozo

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
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
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
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
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
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
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
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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Danger May Rescue
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
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 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
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
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. 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

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