Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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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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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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The 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.
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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 is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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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.
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