12 Benjamin N. Cardozo Quotes for You to Enjoy

Benjamin N. Cardozo

American Judge

Born: May 24, 1870

Died: Jul 9, 1938

Every Judge Justice Law Life Sense

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Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not to the law, but to the facts. In countless litigations, the law Is so clear that judges have no discretion. Benjamin N. Cardozo

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

Life Great Society Our Must Unquestioned Remake Argued Myths Outstanding Within Fit Truths Little Away Necessary Phenomena

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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The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities. Benjamin N. Cardozo

Eyes See Martyr Prophet Fixed

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

Constitution Law Made Sense Secondary Consistent Judges Subordinate Legislators

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress. Benjamin N. Cardozo

Art Dress Jurisprudence Literature Fashions

Law never is, but is always about to be. Benjamin N. Cardozo

Law About Never Always

The risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed. Benjamin N. Cardozo

Duty Defines Obeyed Perceived Risk

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life. Benjamin N. Cardozo

Life Law Take Existing Realities

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

Work Truth Day Every Day Judge Nothing Every Hundreds Thousand Thousand Times Would Easy Find Followed Cases More Could Throughout Had He Suppose Courts Times Goes Any Deciding Process Which Land Might Farther Describe

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

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

A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior. Benjamin N. Cardozo

Alone Honesty Behavior Honor Stricter Market Morals Something Most Than Place Sensitive Then Held Standard

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