Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
BENJAMIN CARDOZONot honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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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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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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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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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 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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Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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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 is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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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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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 validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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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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