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.
BENJAMIN CARDOZOThe validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
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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 final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.
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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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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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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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The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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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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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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