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

Benjamin Cardozo

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
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 great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
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Judging Men Tides
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
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
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Judging Justice Law
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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Gain Honesty Men
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
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
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense

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