Benjamin Cardozo Quotes

The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

Law never is, but is always about to be.

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.

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