Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
BENJAMIN CARDOZONot honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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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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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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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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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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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.
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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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We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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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.
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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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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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