Top 33 Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
#1. 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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#2. It is when the colors do not match, when the references in the index fail, when there is no decisive precedent, that the serious business of the judge begins
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#3. 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.
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#4. The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.
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#5. Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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#6. Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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#7. The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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#9. 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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#10. The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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#11. Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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#13. We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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#14. 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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#15. Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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#16. Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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#17. Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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#18. Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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#19. 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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#21. The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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#22. 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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#25. History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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#29. Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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#30. 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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#31. I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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#32. Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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