Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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 percieved defines the duty to be obeyed
BENJAMIN CARDOZO Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO Law never is, but is always about to be
BENJAMIN CARDOZO Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO The difference is no less real because it is of degree
BENJAMIN CARDOZO We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO Consequences cannot alter statues, but may help to fix their meaning.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of free...
BENJAMIN CARDOZO Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of free...
BENJAMIN CARDOZO Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions
BENJAMIN CARDOZO I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO Law never is, but is always about to be.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO We are what we believe we are
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
BENJAMIN NATHAN CARDOZO In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premis...
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO We are what we believe we are.
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catas...
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms se...
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypothes...
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan ...
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, o...
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argue...
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of good...
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-...
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides ...
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but ...
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO I own that it is a good deal of a mystery to me how judges, of all persons in the world, should put ...
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which ...
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit...
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO [I]t is no doubt true that our image of what a messiah might look like may keep us from recognizing ...
NATHAN LOPES CARDOZO In a remarkable midrash (commentary) on Proverbs, we read the following: “All of the festivals wil...
NATHAN LOPES CARDOZO One of the great tasks of Jewish education is to deliberately create an atmosphere of rebellion amon...
RABBI DAVID CARDOZO Jews have been an ever-dying people that never died. They have experienced a continuous resurrection...
NATHAN LOPES CARDOZO Even if dogma has a purpose, it can never function as a substitute for faith, only as a dry aspect o...
NATHAN LOPES CARDOZO Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
WALTER BENJAMIN Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have th...
BENJAMIN HARRISON Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
BENJAMIN JOWETT If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, th...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memori...
WALTER BENJAMIN All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
WALTER BENJAMIN All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
WALTER BENJAMIN Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life o...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no m...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reas...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the laz...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When you're finished changing, you're finished.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When in doubt, don't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Lost time is never found again.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in...
BENJAMIN HARRISON A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
OWEN BENJAMIN I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children'...
OWEN BENJAMIN To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
OWEN BENJAMIN Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Hunger is the best pickle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The bud of victory is always in the truth.
BENJAMIN HARRISON A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, ac...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house...
BENJAMIN BRITTEN When you go to work, you are a Christian at your workplace. You're not a broadcaster who happens...
BENJAMIN WATSON I travel often, so my routine is always getting scrambled. But on a standard sort of day, I get up a...
BENJAMIN PERCY Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.
BENJAMIN JOWETT My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
BENJAMIN JOWETT Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of t...
BENJAMIN JOWETT There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become...
BENJAMIN JOWETT The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
BENJAMIN JOWETT We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always ...
BENJAMIN JOWETT Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
BENJAMIN JOWETT You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you...
BENJAMIN JOWETT One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
BENJAMIN JOWETT Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it wo...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make...
BENJAMIN COHEN Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply t...
BENJAMIN TILLETT I think, over the time that you're in the league, you learn what your body needs: you learn the ...
BENJAMIN WATSON Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abs...
BENJAMIN WIKER Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from th...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liber...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We assemble parliaments and councils, to have the benefit of their collected wisdom; but we necessar...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may per...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Whilst the last members were signing the Constitution, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presiden...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; becau...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Has not the famous political Fable of the Snake, with two Heads and one Body, some useful Instructio...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I we...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?A Republic, if you can keep it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowl...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs throug...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is ri...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A plural Legislature is as necessary to good Government as a single Executive. It is not enough that...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Dr. FRANKLIN mentioned the case of the Prince of Orange William V, during the late war. An arrangeme...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Dr. Franklin was for retaining the clause on impeachment, as favorable to the executive. History fur...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings w...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this trut...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my fav...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I didn't blend well with my classmates or my teachers.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Never confuse motion with action.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told t...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parli...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orat...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Never complain and never explain.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Mr Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea,and that was wrong.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI That we may live to see England once more possess a free Monarchy and a privileged and prosperous Pe...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
BENJAMIN SPOCK I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the mo...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I condole with you, we have lost a most dear and valuable relation, but it is the will of God and Na...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sir, I say that justice is truth in action
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely...
BENJAMIN SPOCK Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when chi...
BENJAMIN SPOCK Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for somethin...
BENJAMIN SPOCK The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to th...
BENJAMIN SPOCK To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation
BENJAMIN SPOCK When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable
BENJAMIN SPOCK What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after a...
BENJAMIN SPOCK You know more than you think you do.
BENJAMIN SPOCK You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out ...
BENJAMIN JOWETT We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.
BENJAMIN JOWETT When a man listens to the voice of the tempter within him, he is inclined to do as others do, not to...
BENJAMIN JOWETT One use of prayer is to maintain in us a higher standard and prevent our principles insensibly sinki...
BENJAMIN JOWETT An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own childr...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame; a quality of success wh...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tenden...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
BENJAMIN SPOCK There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.
WALTER BENJAMIN There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN One today is worth two tomorrows.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Power has only one duty --to secure the social welfare of the People.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The most important four words for a successful marriage: 'I'll do the dishes.'
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can't see.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Marriage is a wonderful institution... but who wants to live in an institution?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN What great energy, intelligence, and magnificent beautiful eyes... But enough about me, how are you ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Lib...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable ...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal....
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Creditors have better memories than debtors.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Great countries are those that produce great people.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI