Courthouses Quotes

• The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “Thou shalt not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.

  George Carlin

  Philosophy, Real, Lying

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• Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Doors, Doe, Process

  Thurgood Marshall, Mark V. Tushnet (2001). “Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences”, p.375, Chicago Review Press

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• Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.

  William Rehnquist

  Running, Wall, Doors

  Address at Suffolk University Law School; quoted in "The New York Times", April 17, 1986.

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• Your flag flyin' over the courthouse
  Means certain things are set in stone.
  Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't

  Bruce Springsteen

  Mean, Flying, Flags

  "Song: 'Long Walk Home'". 2007.

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• A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Inspirational, Freedom, Philosophy

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.13, A&C Black

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• The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go to the feed store, or the country courthouse without running into storytellers.

  Charles Kuralt

  Running, Country, Tradition

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• If I were a person of color in Florida, I would pick up a brick and start walking toward that courthouse in Sanford. Those that do not, those that hold the pain and betrayal inside and somehow manage to resist violence - these citizens are testament to a stoic tolerance that is more than the rest of us deserve. I confess, their patience and patriotism is well beyond my own.

  David Simon

  Pain, Betrayal, Florida

  "David Simon On George Zimmerman Verdict: I’m ‘Ashamed’ To Identify As American" by Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2013.

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• When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.

  Janet Flanner

  War, Views, Looks

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

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• Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Kentucky, Texas, Constitution

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• If confirmed, [Judge of the Supreme Court] will write the words that will either broaden or narrow our rights for the rest of your working life. You will be interpreting the Constitution in which we as a people place our faith and on which our freedoms as a nation rest. And on a daily basis, the words of your opinions will affect countless individuals as they seek protection behind the courthouse doors.

  Herb Kohl

  Writing, Rights, Doors

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.

  Jim Thompson

  Long Ago, Law, Found

  Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

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• The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.

  Clarence Darrow

  Real, Doors, Office

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• The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden chord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors.

  Hakim Bey

  Dancing, Perception, Deeds

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• I love getting into the basement of a courthouse, and all the dusty records - all that stuff makes me really happy.

  Sharon Cameron

  Records, Stuff, Basements

  Source: bookpage.com

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• All over Montana, you can walk into a bar, a café or even a school or a courthouse and just listen for a while as people talk to each other. And you will hear somebody, before very long, say something outrageously racist.

  Brian Schweitzer

  School, Long, People

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• I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old courthouse, the train depot, Mount [Jumbo] and Mount Sentinel rising up, the neon bars, the funky festivity of a college town .

  Garrison Keillor

  Sweet, College, Air

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• Anyone who's had a shower and hasn't ingested illegal narcotics within a couple of days stands out on a bench in the courthouse.

  Alafair Burke

  Couple, Benches, Standing Out

  Alafair Burke (2004). “Judgment Calls”, p.159, Macmillan

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• Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant? How about a black person walking up the steps of a courthouse carrying a briefcase?

  Myrna Loy

  Play, Black, Doe

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

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• I'm proud to be an Oakie from Muskogee, a place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse and white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all.

  Merle Haggard

  Squares, Old Glory, White

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• "I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken." I should like to have that written over the portals of every church, every school, and every courthouse, and, may I say, of every legislative body in the United States. I should like to have every court begin, "I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that we may be mistaken."

  Learned Hand

  School, Thinking, Church

  "Morals in Public Life". Book by Learned Hand, 1951.

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• Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Space, Community, Village

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• I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.

  Flavor Flav

  Real, School, Heavy

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• The big guys, the big dogs, are going to own everything from the White House to the courthouse.

  Brian Schweitzer

  Dog, White, House

  "Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer Talks Citizens United Sr." by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. June 19, 2012.

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• We got married drunk in Vegas . . . We dated for a year, and we got married at a drive-through chapel in a cab. [We thought] you have to go down to the courthouse and sign papers and stuff, so who knew? We were married, and apparently now that [Rob] is getting married for real, his lawyer dug up something.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Real, Vegas, Years

  "Janeane Garofalo’s ‘marriage’ no joke". pagesix.com. November 13, 2012.

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• In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse.

  Petrus Borel

  Two, Paris, Thieves

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