Benjamin Cardozo Men Quotations

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.

What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.