Benjamin N. Cardozo Quotes

The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made law is secondary and subordinate to the law that is made by legislators.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: judge
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 24, 1870 - July 9, 1938

Topics

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If the finest hour is now, then I'll always be in it.

Jim Coleman

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Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine.

Jill Lepore

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I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

Steve Coogan

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I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's vampires. If it's too close, I get upset; if it's too far away, I get upset. It just makes me very neurotic.

Stephenie Meyer

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So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

Steven Spielberg

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Every characteristic of my character and my moves always came from my real life. My character is kind of close to my real personality.

Shinsuke Nakamura

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We need to do a much better job when people are addicted to take them through treatment and recovery.

Rob Portman

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Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence.

Ronnie Barker

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Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.

Louis A. Johnson

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I'm going to stay on stage until I drop dead. Then I'm going to have myself stuffed, like Trigger, and I'm going to put me in a museum.

Debbie Reynolds

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Having worked with many of the world's top modeling agencies for the last decade, I've seen what works and doesn't work in managing a model's career.

Coco Rocha

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I don't think we're politically correct when we're private. I don't know what 'politically correct' means.

Brad Garrett

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