Benjamin Cardozo Professions : Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Born : May 24, 1870 Died : July 9, 1938 Browse All Authors Top 48 quotes by Benjamin Cardozo The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age. Benjamin Cardozo significance constitution age The difference is no less real because it is of degree. Benjamin Cardozo degrees differences real Danger invites rescue. ... The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had. Benjamin Cardozo rescue danger may The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name. Benjamin Cardozo validity taxes names It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic. Benjamin Cardozo mind ordinary justice Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error. Benjamin Cardozo ingredients errors growth Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience. Benjamin Cardozo substitutes honest poor The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong. Benjamin Cardozo limits law running Similar Authors Benjamin Robbins Curtis former-associate-justice-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states Byron White former-associate-justice-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states Arthur Goldberg former-associate-justice-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states Abe Fortas former-associate-justice-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states David Souter former-associate-justice-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states David Josiah Brewer former-associate-justice-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states All Authors
