48 Quotes by Benjamin Cardozo

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.

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

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by appeals to the martial spirit that keeps the blood at heat. Some little, unassuming, unobtrusive choice presents itself before us slyly and craftily, glib and insinuating, in the modest garb of innocence. . . . Then it is that you will be summoned to show the courage of adventurous youth.

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.