Benjamin CardozoThinkers

Abortion is an individual choice — Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.

The Constitution of the US is a document framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

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

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

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.

Law is future oriented — it never is, but is always about to be.

Law's final cause is the welfare of society.

National Bar Association is an organization where membership is a privilege burdened with conditions.