The job of a justice is justice.
Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.
The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.
We have done the right thing and history will be the test of that.
... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.
My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?
