Consequences cannot alter statues, but may help to fix their meaning.
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The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.Benjamin Cardozo
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Existing rules and principles can give us our present location, our bearings, our latitude and longitude. The inn that shelters for the night is not the journey's end. The law, like the traveler, must be ready for the morrow. It must have a principle of growth.
Benjamin Cardozo
Judges are supposed to use all this power to make sure that justice is done, that at some basic level the verdicts issued in their courts display a certain degree of reasonableness. The judge, ... is under a duty, within the limits of his powers of innovation, to maintain a relation between law and morals, between the precepts of jurisprudence and those of reason and good conscience.
Benjamin Cardozo
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
Benjamin Cardozo
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