Law never is, but is always about to be.

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The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

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

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Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

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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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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

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