Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOThe heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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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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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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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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Law never is, but is always about to be.
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History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
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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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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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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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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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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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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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