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The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds.

~Benjamin N. Cardozo

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The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

~Benjamin N. Cardozo

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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.

~Benjamin N. Cardozo

Topics: Action Any Call Cannot Choose Coherence Current Direction Each Escape Gives Judges More Mortals Other Philosophy Stream Tendency Than Thought Us Whether Which You

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The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered.

~Benjamin N. Cardozo

Topics: Accepted Applicable Been Case Continually Courts Every Experiment Felt Final Great Hypotheses Justice Law Never New Principles Result Rule Rules Seems Those Treated Truths Unjust Which Working Yields

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There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.

~Benjamin N. Cardozo

Topics: Action Attend Binding Blessings Crisis Cry Decay Evils Existing Force Forms Life Lost Men Nations Needed Obscure Old Raised Ready Reform Rules Seem Seldom Systems Them Where Worlds

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The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made law is secondary and subordinate to the law that is made by legislators.

~Benjamin N. Cardozo

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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.

~Benjamin N. Cardozo

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To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the labor of the artist, how the labor of the strong can be measured against the labor of the weak, the communists can give no answer.

~Benjamin N. Cardozo

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I own that it is a good deal of a mystery to me how judges, of all persons in the world, should put their faith in dicta. A brief experience on the bench was enough to reveal to me all sorts of cracks and crevices and loopholes in my own opinions when picked up a few months after delivery and reread with due contrition.

~Benjamin N. Cardozo

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In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers and the judges of successive generations do not repeat for themselves the process of verification any more than most of us repeat the demonstrations of the truths of astronomy or physics.

~Benjamin N. Cardozo

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: May 24th, 1870

Died: July 9th, 1938

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