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The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

Benjamin Cardozo

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
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
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
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
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
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
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
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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Age Constitution Significance
Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.
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Balance Fairness Justice
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
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
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
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved

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