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.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOIn 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.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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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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There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
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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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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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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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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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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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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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The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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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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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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