"Existing rules and principles can give us our……" — Benjamin Cardozo
"Existing rules and principles can give us our present location, our bearings, our latitude and longitude. The inn that shelters for the night is not the journey's end. The law, like the traveler, must be ready for the morrow. It must have a principle of growth."
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Benjamin Cardozo
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