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Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.
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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
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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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The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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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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The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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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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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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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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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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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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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.
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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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