Our course of advance... is neither a straight line nor a curve. It is a series of dots and dashes.
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo
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 authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo
Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo
Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo