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. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by appeals to… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
