Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOThe heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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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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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
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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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The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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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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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 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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No judicial system could do society’s work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.
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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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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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The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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