Benjamin N. Cardozo

“The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.”

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

“To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the labor of the artist, how the labor of the strong can be measured against the labor of the weak, the communists can give no answer.”

“There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.”