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Benjamin Cardozo

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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Judging Men Tides
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
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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Justice Mind Ordinary
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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Decision Justice Taken
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
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 thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
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Confidence Giving Judging Philosophy
We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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Finding Illusion Mind Peace
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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Issue Judicial Raise Sysdtem
Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.
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Balance Fairness Justice
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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Eternity Eye Prophet
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique

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