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

Benjamin Cardozo

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
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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
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
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
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
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

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