The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOInaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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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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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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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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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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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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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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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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