Accepted Quote by Benjamin N. Cardozo

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

— Charles Sumner

Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Thus, though there is a psychological tendency of accepting the judge’s verdict and reasoning as expert reasoning and tinge of finality adorned to his discretely…

— Henrietta Newton Martin

“It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care…

— Jonathan Swift

“In the 20th century, it became more and more the norm for judges to incorrectly instruct juries that they must consider only the facts…

— Mark David Ledbetter

For the law, the clarity of language and the finality of judgment is crucial, because you have to decide a case one way or…

— Talal Asad

Law is a process. If there is equality of process for everybody, then that's our definition of justice. Whether or not what is done…

— Francis George

It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves…

— Aristotle

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original…

— Edmund Burke

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

The use of cases is to establish principles; if the cases decide different from the principles, I must follow the principles, not the decisions.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right.

— Kapil Sibal