Benjamin Cardozo Quotes

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice. Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

— Benjamin Cardozo

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet. Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

— Benjamin Cardozo

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be

— Benjamin Cardozo

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous

— Benjamin Cardozo

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it. Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

— Benjamin Cardozo

Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection

— Benjamin Cardozo

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive,

— Benjamin Cardozo

History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice

— Benjamin Cardozo

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the

— Benjamin Cardozo

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress. Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

— Benjamin Cardozo

There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you

— Benjamin Cardozo

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced. Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

— Benjamin Cardozo

In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty

— Benjamin Cardozo

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion. Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

— Benjamin Cardozo

What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled

— Benjamin Cardozo

More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood

— Benjamin Cardozo

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum

— Benjamin Cardozo

The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do

— Benjamin Cardozo

The difference is no less real because it is of degree. Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

The difference is no less real because it is of degree.

— Benjamin Cardozo

In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a

— Benjamin Cardozo

In the end the great truth will have been learned that the Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

In the end the great truth will have been learned that the

— Benjamin Cardozo

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance

— Benjamin Cardozo

Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the

— Benjamin Cardozo

Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of

— Benjamin Cardozo

Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning. Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.

— Benjamin Cardozo

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive. Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

— Benjamin Cardozo

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name. Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

— Benjamin Cardozo

It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of

— Benjamin Cardozo

The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults

— Benjamin Cardozo

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none. Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

— Benjamin Cardozo

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the

— Benjamin Cardozo

Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The

— Benjamin Cardozo

With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only

— Benjamin Cardozo

The final cause of law is the welfare of society. Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

— Benjamin Cardozo

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of

— Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more. Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

— Benjamin Cardozo

As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern Benjamin Cardozo Picture Quote

As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern

— Benjamin Cardozo

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