There is in each of us a ...

There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
 Benjamin Cardozo

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
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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.
 Benjamin Cardozo
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.
 Benjamin Cardozo
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.
 Benjamin Cardozo
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
 Benjamin Cardozo
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
 Benjamin Cardozo