Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOJustice, 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.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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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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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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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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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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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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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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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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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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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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