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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
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
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
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
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
It 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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Justice Mind Ordinary
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
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
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 Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.
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Long Running Swim
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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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Distance Doe Joy
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real

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

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