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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The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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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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We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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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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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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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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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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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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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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