Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOOpinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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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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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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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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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 final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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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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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 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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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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The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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