Law never is, but is always about to be.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOLaw never is, but is always about to be.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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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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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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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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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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History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.
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The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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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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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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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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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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