His Own Ideal Quotes by Benjamin Cardozo

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Benjamin Cardozo has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
• What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed.…
• The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
• The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion…
• The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in…
• Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
• I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
• Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
• Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
• In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer…
• Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
• The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

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