Court Quotes - Page 6

• There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Justice, Higher

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Collected Works”

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• Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

  Phil Donahue

  Interesting, Favors, Airline

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.

  Henry Timrod

  Lonely, Dark, Lamps

  Henry Timrod (1873). “The Poems of Henry Timrod”, p.131

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• Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Trust, Peace

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• When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.

  Stephen Johnson Field

  Law, Judging, Obliged

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 430-34, 1922.

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• If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the use of information.

  John Yoo

  Judging, Use, Information

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• No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New York and France are very different.

  Helen Wills

  New York, Player, August

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• So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Judging, Favors, Economy

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• Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Guy

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• All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.

  Gary Bauer

  War, Issues, Culture

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• I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Thinking, Guy, Lucky

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• In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

  Walter Lippmann

  Passion, Men, Office

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.464, Harvard University Press

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• Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Justice, Joy, Insecurity

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• Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Reviews, Cases, Enjoy

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• You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

  Colin Powell

  Father, Philadelphia, House

  "Colin Powell reflects on endorsing Obama in 2008". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. May 22, 2012.

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• The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Microsoft, Tests, Information

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• 'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.

  Karl Rove

  Views, Justice, Empathy

  The Rachel Maddow Show, www.msnbc.com. May 28, 2009.

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• I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Differences, Judging, Prejudice

  "A Latina Judge's Voice". Address to the 'Raising the Bar' symposium at the UC Berkeley School of Law, www.berkeley.edu. 2001.

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• I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Responsibility, Thinking, Law

  "Adlai Stevenson of Illinois: The Life of Adlai E. Stevenson". Book by John Bartlow Martin, p. 552, 1976.

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• Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

  Serena Williams

  Motivational, Athlete, Knowing

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• Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Fall, Court Judges, Judging

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• I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there.

  Jason Kidd

  Basketball, Risk, Trying

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• We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice - however much we might desire it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Should Have, Law, Racism

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• I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me, these are false hopes. 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. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no courts to save it.

  Learned Hand

  Lying, Believe, Heart

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

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• Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV

  Debra Messing

  Dog, Husband, Book

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