Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
BENJAMIN CARDOZORest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOThe validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOThe great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOIt 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.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOWhat has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOCode is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOProphecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOThe 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.
BENJAMIN CARDOZODanger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOThe great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOFraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOThere are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOFreedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOJustice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
BENJAMIN CARDOZODue process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOConsequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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