Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOOpinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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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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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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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 judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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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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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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