The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOOpinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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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 heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
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In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity – please observe, a plodding mediocrity – for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
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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.
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History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
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The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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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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