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.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOJustice, 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.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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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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I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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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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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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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.
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity – please observe, a plodding mediocrity – for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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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 generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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