Benjamin Cardozo

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

The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.

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

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

Law never is, but is always about to be.

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive

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

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

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

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

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

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

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