Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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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Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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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 great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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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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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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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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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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Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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