"The Constitution was framed upon the theory that……" — Benjamin Cardozo
"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 prosperity and salvation are in union and not division."
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39 Quotes by Benjamin Cardozo
Benjamin Cardozo has 39 quotes on this site.
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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not…
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The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour,…
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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the…
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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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