48 Quotes by Benjamin Cardozo

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

Law never is, but is always about to be.

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

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

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

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.

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

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.

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.