It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of admin…

- Benjamin Cardozo

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

- Benjamin Cardozo

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

- Benjamin Cardozo

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

- Benjamin Cardozo

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

- Benjamin Cardozo

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

- Benjamin Cardozo

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

- Benjamin Cardozo

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

- Benjamin Cardozo

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

- Benjamin Cardozo