"No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is." -- Isaac Rosenfeld (1918-1956) Jewish-American writer
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"The quixotic desire to do good, be universally fair and make everybody happy is understandable [...] There is only one problem with this approach. We are a court." -- Justice Janice Brown (1949-) federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1996-2005) Source: Justice Janice Brown California Supreme Court, quoted in Gathering Mob: Part II by Thomas Sowell
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"Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard." -- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) US Supreme Court Justice, also known as "The Great Dissenter" Source: Frank v. Magnum, 237 U.S. 309, 347 (1915).
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