The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
BENJAMIN CARDOZODue process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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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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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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No judicial system could do society’s work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.
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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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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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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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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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The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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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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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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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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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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