Quote #12

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

More from Benjamin N. Cardozo

  1. Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
  2. Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
  3. As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods which divide themselves from one another with measurable disti…
  4. Price security, we are told, is only a special form of sanitary security; the economic motive is secondary and subordinate; the state inter…
  5. With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for gu…
  6. In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity - please observe, a plodding mediocrity - for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but …
  7. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
  8. Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

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