Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOLaw never is, but is always about to be.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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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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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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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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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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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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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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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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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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The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
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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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