Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOInaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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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Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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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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I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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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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The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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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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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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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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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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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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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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