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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.

Benjamin Cardozo

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
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Law Limitation Running
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
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 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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Equality Erosion Liberty
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
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
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
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
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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Example Hands Humility

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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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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