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.
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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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 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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Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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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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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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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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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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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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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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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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