The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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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 must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
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Law never is, but is always about to be.
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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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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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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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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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