Quotes by Benjamin Cardozo

Benjamin Cardozo

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 with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious; the type conversational or homely; the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism; the demonstrative or persuasive; and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem.

Memories

Past

Writing

Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.

Danger

May

Rescue

Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.

Errors

Growth

Ingredients

Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.

Dark

Mind

Years

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Expression

Form

Freedom

History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.

Judging

Justice

Law

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

Illuminating

Past

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

Judging

Law

Reality

In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty and the sham, between what is gold and what is tinsel; and then, when certainty is attained, we must remember that it is not the only good; that we can buy it at too high a price; that there is danger in perpetual quiescence as well as in perpetual motion; and that a compromise must be found in a principle of growth.

Gold

Growth

Sound

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 (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.

Games

Struggle

Truth

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Fifty

Finding Peace

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Hands

Heroic

Honest

Honesty

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Quotes by Benjamin Cardozo

Benjamin Cardozo

Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.

Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.

Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

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 (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.

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