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Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.

Benjamin Cardozo

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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Balance Fairness Justice
Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.
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Dark Mind Years
History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
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Judging Justice Law
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
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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Equality Erosion Liberty
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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Example Hands Humility
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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Age Constitution Significance
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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Issue Judicial Raise Sysdtem

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