The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOI take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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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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I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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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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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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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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The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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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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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
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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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The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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