Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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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Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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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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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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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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The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Law never is, but is always about to be.
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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 judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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