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Benjamin Cardozo Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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Law never is, but is always about to be.


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



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

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



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



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The final cause of law is the welfare of society.



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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.



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Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.





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