The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Accepted 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… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Any 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… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Action 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… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Catastrophe 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… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Alone 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… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Argued 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… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Life 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.… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Any Copy Share Image
The risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed. — Benjamin N. Cardozo Defines 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… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Consistent 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… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Against 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… — Benjamin N. Cardozo After Copy Share Image
