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Benjamin N. Cardozo on Justice

1870–1938 United States

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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

Lecture at Yale University Law School (1923)

The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.

The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921)

Law never is, but is always about to be.

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.

The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921)

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