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 CARDOZOThere are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
More Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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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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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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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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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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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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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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The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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