If you ask how he is to know when one interest outweighs another, I can only answer that he must get his knowledge just as the legislator gets it, from experience and study and reflection; in brief, from life itself.


Page 113. - The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921)

Benjamin N. Cardozo Quotes

If you ask how he is to know when one interest outweighs another, I can only answer that he must get his knowledge just as the legislator gets it,...

If you ask how he is to know when one interest outweighs another, I can only answer that he must get his knowledge just as the legislator gets it,...

If you ask how he is to know when one interest outweighs another, I can only answer that he must get his knowledge just as the legislator gets it,...

If you ask how he is to know when one interest outweighs another, I can only answer that he must get his knowledge just as the legislator gets it,...