Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOThe 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.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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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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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 validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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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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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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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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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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