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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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  Mind, Illusion, Finding Peace

  Benjamin N. Cardozo (1924). “The Growth of the Law”, p.66, Yale University Press

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• 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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  Men, Judging, Tides

  Benjamin N. Cardozo, Andrew L. Kaufman (ed.) (2010). “The Nature of the Judicial Process”, p.68, Quid Pro Books

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• Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

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  Choices, Inaction

  "Richard v. Credit Suisse, 242 N.Y. 346, 351". 1926.

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• Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

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  May, Argument, Scales

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Abraham Lawrence Sainer (1999). “Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo”, p.424, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• 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 Cardozo

  Justice, Mind, Ordinary

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Abraham Lawrence Sainer (1999). “Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo”, p.424, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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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 Cardozo

  Philosophy, Giving, Judging

  Benjamin N. Cardozo (2012). “The Nature of the Judicial Process”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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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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  Judicial

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• Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Honesty, Honor, Sensitive

  "Meinhard v. Salmon, 249 N.Y. 458, 164 N.E. 545". 1928.

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• In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty and the sham, between what is gold and what is tinsel; and then, when certainty is attained, we must remember that it is not the only good; that we can buy it at too high a price; that there is danger in perpetual quiescence as well as in perpetual motion; and that a compromise must be found in a principle of growth.

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  Growth, Gold, Sound

  "The Growth of the Law". Book by Benjamin N. Cardozo, 1924.

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• Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

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  Honest, Poor, Substitutes

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Abraham Lawrence Sainer (1999). “Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo”, p.425, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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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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  Age, Constitution, Significance

  Benjamin N. Cardozo (2009). “The Nature of the Judicial Process”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Risk, Duty

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• Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.

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  Tasks, Done, Revision

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (1982). “Cardozo on the Law: Including the Nature of the Judicial Process, The Growth of the Law, The Paradoxes of Legal Science, Law and Literature”

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• Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.

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  Errors, Growth, Ingredients

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Abraham Lawrence Sainer (1999). “Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo”, p.425, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Humility, Hands, Example

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (1982). “Cardozo on the Law: Including the Nature of the Judicial Process, The Growth of the Law, The Paradoxes of Legal Science, Law and Literature”

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• I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Reality, Law, Judging

  Benjamin N. Cardozo (2012). “The Nature of the Judicial Process”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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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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  Eye, Eternity, Prophet

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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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  May, Danger, Rescue

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Abraham Lawrence Sainer (1999). “Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo”, p.117, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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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.

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  Law, Justice, Judging

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• The difference is no less real because it is of degree.

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  Real, Differences, Degrees

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• The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

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  Names, Taxes, Validity

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• The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

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  Running, Law, Limits

  Benjamin N. Cardozo (2012). “The Nature of the Judicial Process”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

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  Opinion, Source, Significance

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Abraham Lawrence Sainer (1999). “Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo”, p.238, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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