52 Quotes by Benjamin N. Cardozo

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

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

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

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

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

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