Court Quotes

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  We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Men, Democracies Have

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• There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

  Clarence Darrow

  Revenge, Law Courts, Justice

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 19 Apr. 1936

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• The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Christmas, Wise

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Responsibility, Exercise, Sometimes

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• If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

  William Rehnquist

  Shadow, Would Be, Individual

  Booknotes television interview, July 5, 1992.

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• I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Successful, Trials, Lost

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• Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Justice, Lawyer, Members

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• If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off.

  Charles Fried

  Law, People, Would Be

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• The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.'

  Alan Dershowitz

  Lasts, Resorts, Supreme

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• I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Order, Usa

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.397, Best Books on

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• An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

  William Feather

  Wedding, Police, Trouble

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• The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

  Thomas Huxley

  Thinking, Authority, Appeals

  "\Rhetoric and Incommensurability". Book by Randy Allen Harris (p. 228), 2005.

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• I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.

  Jack Kevorkian

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• Insults are the business of the court.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Business, Comeback, Insult

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• Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

  John Milton

  May, Wonder, Solemnity

  'Comus' (1637) l. 745

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• Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Country, Borders, Looks

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• There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Hostility

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• We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.

  Christine Pelosi

  Decision, Should, Congress

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• I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

  Alan Rickman

  Swim, Desire, Want

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• It is nice to walk out on a court to have it packed.

  Pete Sampras

  Nice, Walks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Aggravation, Challenges, Congress

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• If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

  Stendhal

  Men, Thinking, Ruins

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.50, World Classic

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• Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.

  Learned Hand

  Love, Freedom, Hate

  "The Spirit of Liberty" (speech), New York, N.Y., 21 May 1944

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• In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.

  Jimmy Carter

  Respect, Book, Commitment

  Jimmy Earl Carter “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Jimmy Carter, 1978, Book 1: January 1 to June 30, 1978”, Government Printing Office

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• For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

  Thucydides

  Religious, Men, Giving

  Thucydides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)”, p.176, Delphi Classics

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