48 Quotes by Benjamin Cardozo

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

It is when the colors do not match, when the references in the index fail, when there is no decisive precedent, that the serious business of the judge begins

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

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

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

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

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.

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.