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

Benjamin Cardozo

Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
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Danger May Rescue
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
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
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
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Gain Honesty Men
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
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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Law Limitation Running
We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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Finding Illusion Mind Peace
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
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
There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
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Confidence Giving Judging Philosophy
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
Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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Errors Growth Ingredient
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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Decision Justice Taken
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source

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

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