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.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOMembership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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Justice 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.
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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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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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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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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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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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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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The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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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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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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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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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Law never is, but is always about to be.
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