"The prophet and the martyr do not see……" — Benjamin Cardozo
"The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities."
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Benjamin Cardozo
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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 great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour,…
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The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and…
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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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Our attitude toward abortion . . . is fixed by our knowledge that according to an eternal plan all of…
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There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a…
— Mark Twain
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I promise that if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to…
— Delbert L. Stapley
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We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the…
— Mark Twain
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We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between…
— Robert Duvall
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Righteous women have changed the course of history and will continue to do so, and their influence will spread and…
— Julie B. Beck
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Dogs don't know about beginnings, and they don't speculate on matters that occurred before their time. Dogs also don't know…
— Stanley Coren
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Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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While it may be true in some instances that our promised blessings will be fulfilled only in the eternities, it…
— Susan W. Tanner
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The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Oh, what a favored people we are to have this light, this knowledge, these opportunities for happiness on earth and…
— Richard G. Scott
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