Benjamin N. Cardozo Quotes

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Thought is a form of love, if it be inspired. - Benjamin N. Cardozo quote.
Thought is a form of love, if it be inspired.
— Benjamin N. Cardozo Cardozo

inspirational

There is an accuracy that defeats itself by the over-emphasis of details. - Benjamin N. Cardozo quote.
There is an accuracy that defeats itself by the over-emphasis of details.
— Benjamin N. Cardozo Law and Literature

accuracy

Justice is not to be taken by storm.  She is to be wooed by slow advances. - Benjamin N. Cardozo quote.
Justice is not to be taken by storm.  She is to be wooed by slow advances.
— Benjamin N. Cardozo The Growth of the Law

justice

What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight. - Benjamin N. Cardozo quote.
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight.
— Benjamin N. Cardozo The Paradoxes of Legal Science

precedent

The rule of adherence to precedent, though it ought not to be abandoned, ought to be in some degree relaxed.  I think that when a rule, after it has been duly tested by experience, has been found to be inconsistent with the sense of justice or with the social welfare, there should be less hesitation in frank avowal and full abandonment. - Benjamin N. Cardozo quote.
The rule of adherence to precedent, though it ought not to be abandoned, ought to be in some degree relaxed.  I think that when a rule, after it has been duly tested by experience, has been found to be inconsistent with the sense of justice or with the social welfare, there should be less hesitation in frank avowal and full abandonment.
— Benjamin N. Cardozo The Nature of the Judicial Process

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