Benjamin Cardozo Quotes

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

– Benjamin Cardozo

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

– Benjamin Cardozo

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

– Benjamin Cardozo

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

– Benjamin Cardozo

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

– Benjamin Cardozo

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

– Benjamin Cardozo

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

– Benjamin Cardozo

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

– Benjamin Cardozo

Law never is, but is always about to be.

– Benjamin Cardozo