The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOFraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Law never is, but is always about to be.
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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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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 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 heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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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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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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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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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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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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