Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOMembership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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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 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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We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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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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Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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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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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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Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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