Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced. — 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
