Benjamin N. Cardozo Quotes
In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
Cardozo, Benjamin N. Law and Literature and Other Essays and Addresses. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931, p. 165.
Thomas of London. Beckett was the friend of King Henry and his Chancellor. Henry against Becket’s advice appointed him Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the church in England. Soon Henry came into conflict with the Church and Thomas sided with the Church and against his old friend and king. The king had him assassinated despite their friendship.
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo was an American jurist who served on the New York Court of Appeals and later as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Cardozo is remembered for his significant influence on the development of American common law in the 20th century, in addition to his philosophy and vivid prose style. Cardozo served on the Supreme Court six years, from 1932 until his death in 1938. Many of his landmark decisions were delivered during his eighteen-year tenure on the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court of that state.
