The Constitution was 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.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that collective unity among states leads to prosperity and success.
Benjamin Cardozo's quote reflects the idea that the strength and survival of individual states are interdependent. It suggests that only through unity can people achieve long-term success and well-being, highlighting the importance of collaboration over division.
In practice
In a speech about community service, one might say, 'As Benjamin Cardozo said, the Constitution teaches us that prosperity lies in unity, not division.'
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.
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.
In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.
All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers.
It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.
The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing, who would ever have been spared?
Parents realize their wealth should be used for social good rather than children's good.
The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.
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