With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOIt is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Law never is, but is always about to be.
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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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No judicial system could do society’s work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.
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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.
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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.
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