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.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOIt is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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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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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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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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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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Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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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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The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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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 judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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