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 CARDOZOJustice 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.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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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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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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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
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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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Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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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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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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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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