Court Quotes - Page 3

• And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

  Joseph Story

  Integrity, Justice, Stability

  Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.426

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• The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.

  Todd Akin

  Government, Roles, Branches

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• Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.

  Dennis Hastert

  Good Day, Feet, Judging

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• World history is a court of judgment.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophical, History, World

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• There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.

  Patty Hearst

  Gun, Hands, Car

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• There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Successful, Rights, Order

  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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• Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Appeals, Reverence

  Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

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• Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

  Walter Scott

  Love, Best Friend, Men

  The Lay of the Last Minstrel canto 3, st. 2 (1805)

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• The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Book, Passion, Justice

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.3488, Delphi Classics

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• You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president

  James Baker

  White, Tennis, House

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• I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.

  Nat King Cole

  Usa, America, Proud

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• A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  God, Judging, Conscience

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• I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Education, People

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mignon McCarthy (1990). “Kareem”, Random House Incorporated

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• I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

  Brendan Behan

  Life, Dublin, Ireland And The Irish

  The Hostage act 1 (1958)

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• The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

  Denis Diderot

  Running, Law, Long

  "Selected Writings". Book by Lester G. Crocker, 1966.

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• Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

  Washington Irving

  Funny, Business, Humorous

  Washington Irving (1824). “Salmagundi: or, the Whim-whams and opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq., and others. vol. 1, 2. no. 1-20. 24 Jan. 1807-25 Jan. 1808”, p.212

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• I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.

  William Howard Taft

  Love, Justice, Judging

  Address in Pocatello, Idaho, October 05, 1911.

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• A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Political, Noble, Ears

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• Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

  Robert Owen

  Law, Ears, States

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• The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Funny, Success, Humorous

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• Court... a place where they dispense with justice.

  Arthur Cheney Train

  Justice, Ears

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• I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

  Uri Geller

  Caring, Criticism, Fame

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

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• An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Appeals

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• Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment.

  William O. Douglas

  History, Amendments, Gloss

  "The Court years, 1939-1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas‎". Book by William O. Douglas, 1980.

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