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 India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.
The ocean of Spirit has become the little bubble of my soul. Whether floating in birth, or disappearing in death, in the ocean of cosmic awareness the bubble of my life cannot die. I am indestructible consciousness, protected in the bosom of Spirit’s immortality.
Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.
The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
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