"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."

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Source : "The Paradoxes of Legal Science". Book by Benjamin N. Cardozo, 1928.

Benjamin Cardozo

#Honesty Quotes #Men Quotes #Gains Quotes

“Each morning brings a hidden blessing; a blessing which is unique to that day, and which cannot be kept or re-used. If we do not use this miracle today, it will be lost.”
“If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.”
“In my sick brain, gruesome violence and comedy go as hand-to-hand together as anything else in the world.”
“If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morality of the gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted: I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God.”
“Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.”
“Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character.”
“The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.”
“If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!'.”

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