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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.

Benjamin Cardozo

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
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
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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Eternity Eye Prophet
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
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
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.
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Equality Erosion Liberty
The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
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Judging Men Tides
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
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

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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