Quotes by Benjamin Cardozo

• I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
• The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
• The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
• Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
• Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
• Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
• Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
• Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
• Law never is, but is always about to be.