The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOThe validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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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 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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Law never is, but is always about to be.
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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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Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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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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Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.
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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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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 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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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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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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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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