More from Benjamin N. Cardozo

  1. Danger invites rescue. ... The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
  2. The whole problem of the relation between parent and subsidiary corporations is one that is still enveloped in the mists of metaphor. Metap…
  3. Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of auth…
  4. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
  5. The law has outgrown its primitive stage of formalism when the precise word was the sovereign talisman, and every slip was fatal. It takes …
  6. With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for gu…
  7. The defendant styles herself 'a creator of fashions.' Her favor helps a sale. Manufacturers of dresses, millinery and like articles are gla…
  8. 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…

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