Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOIt is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.
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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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Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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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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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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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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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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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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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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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 judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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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 heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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