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Benjamin Cardozo Quotes

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it Picture Quote #1

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life Picture Quote #1

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive Picture Quote #1

Law never is, but is always about to be Picture Quote #1

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress Picture Quote #1

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name Picture Quote #1

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The difference is no less real because it is of degree Picture Quote #1

The final cause of law is the welfare of society Picture Quote #1

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet Picture Quote #1

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more Picture Quote #1

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more Picture Quote #1

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions Picture Quote #1

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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience Picture Quote #1

The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed Picture Quote #1

Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning Picture Quote #1

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced Picture Quote #1

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none Picture Quote #1

The judicial process, as was said at the outset of these lectures, is a process of search and comparison, and little else Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Danger invites rescue... The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had Picture Quote #1

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Our course of advance... Is neither a straight line nor a curve. It is a series of dots and dashes Picture Quote #1

Bills of rights give assurance to the individual of the preservation of his liberty. They do not define the liberty they promise Picture Quote #1

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities Picture Quote #1

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances Picture Quote #1

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong Picture Quote #1

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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) Law never is, but is always about to be (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) The difference is no less real because it is of degree (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) The final cause of law is the welfare of society (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) The judicial process, as was said at the outset of these lectures, is a process of search and comparison, and little else (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) 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 (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) 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 (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) Danger invites rescue... The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) 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 (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) Our course of advance... Is neither a straight line nor a curve. It is a series of dots and dashes (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) Bills of rights give assurance to the individual of the preservation of his liberty. They do not define the liberty they promise (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes) The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong (Benjamin Cardozo Quotes)

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