The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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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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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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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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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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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Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
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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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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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What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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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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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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