Benjamin Cardozo Quotations

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

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

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.

With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.

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

It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

Danger invites rescue. ... The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.