Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOHistory, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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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 prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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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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It 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.
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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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