Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOLaw never is, but is always about to be.
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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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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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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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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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 difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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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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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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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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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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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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