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Metaphors in law are to be narrowly watched, for starting as devices to liberate thought, they end often by enslaving it.

— Benjamin N. Cardozo

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

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

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.

Lecture at Yale University Law School (1923)

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.

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