All Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
- The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy… Any
- There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to… Action
- 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 secondary… Consistent
- The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of… Accepted
- I own that it is a good deal of a mystery to me how judges, of all persons in the world, should put their faith… All
- In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers and… Any
- There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress. Art
- The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong. Assumption
- The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do… Argued
- Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not to… Catastrophe
- History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law… Anxious
- The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness. Beauty
- A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most… Alone
- Existing rules and principles can give us our present location, our bearings, our latitude and longitude. The inn that shelters for the night is not… Bearings