Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOIn 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.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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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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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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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.
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We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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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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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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Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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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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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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Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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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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