All Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
- Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. Condition
- 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… All
- The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities. Eternities
- 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,… Assault
- 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… Constitution
- Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Advances
- I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life. Existing
- Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior. Alone
- Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none. Fraud
- 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… Been
- Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it. Inspirational
- The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet. Announce
- Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more. Inspiration
- The final cause of law is the welfare of society. Cause
- As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another… Agglutinative
- Law never is, but is always about to be. Funny
- Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience. Experience
- The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed. Defines
- Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions. Bar
- The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by appeals to the… Adventurous
- In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far,… Courage
- More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last… Carry
- The difference is no less real because it is of degree. Degree
- There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and… Action
- To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the labor… Answer