“You will study the wisdom of the past, for in a wilderness of conflicting counsels, a trail has there been blazed. You will study the life of mankind, for this is the life you must order, and, to order with… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay,… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
“You will study the wisdom of the past, for in a wilderness of conflicting counsels, a trail has there been blazed. You will study… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made law is… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
I own that it is a good deal of a mystery to me how judges, of all persons in the world, should put their… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
