Author: Benjamin N. Cardozo

Quotes

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

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

- Benjamin N. Cardozo

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

- Benjamin N. Cardozo

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

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

- Benjamin N. Cardozo

A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

- Benjamin N. Cardozo

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

- Benjamin N. Cardozo

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