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BENJAMIN CARDOZORest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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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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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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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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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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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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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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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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I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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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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