There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
BENJAMIN CARDOZORest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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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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The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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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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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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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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Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Law never is, but is always about to be.
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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 prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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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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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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