Judicial Quotes - Page 9

• If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism, and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left.

  Thomas Sowell

  Engineering, Knowledgeable Person, Political

  "Don't Be So Sure". www.nationalreview.com. May 16, 2007.

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• Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

  Thomas Sowell

  Nannies, Planning, States

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• Of the over 100,000 wildfires that happen in the U.S. each year, not a single one would get started without the fire triangle: Oxygen, heat and fuel. Fire needs all three to exist. It's like the three branches of our government: Legislative, judicial and executive. The fewer there are, the safer we are.

  Stephen Colbert

  Fire, Government, Oxygen

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• We are deeply concerned about the situation in Russia with regards to human rights. There are several examples of this situation, such as the new law requiring NGOs to register as "foreign agents", the law banning homosexual "propaganda", problems with the rule of law and arbitrary judicial processes, and court rulings against the opposition.

  Cecilia Malmstrom

  Law, Russia, Rights

  "Situation in Russia". Personal blog at the European Commission website, ec.europa.eu. January 17, 2014.

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• Either Christ is a liar or war is never necessary, and very properly assuming that Christ told the truth, it follows that the State is without [in the words of Father Macksey] 'judicial authority to determine when war is necessary,' because it is never necessary.

  Ben Salmon

  Father, War, Liars

  "Ben Salmon On War". Book by Ben Salmon, pp. 86 - 87, "Personal critique of just war doctrine", 1921.

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• Some have argued that the President is required to get permission from a federal court before taking action against a United States citizen who is a senior operational leader of al Qaeda or associated forces. This is simply not accurate. 'Due process' and 'judicial process' are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security. The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.

  Eric Holder

  Senior, Leader, President

  Address at Northwestern University Law School, delivered 5 March 2012, Chicago, IL

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• Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has hardly restrained Congress at all. Instead it has progressively stripped the states of their traditional powers, while allowing federal power to grow unchecked.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Judicial Review, Favors

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• When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.

  Newt Gingrich

  Institutions, Court

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• After years spent trying to deal with the effects of COINTELPRO, my rage at the FBI's almost unimaginable evil remains undiminished because I believe that it succeeded in many of its horrifying goals, given the deaths of Martin King, Malcolm X, and other sixties leaders. Since the FBI uses taxpayer dollars to fund its extreme and ridiculous investigations of anyone who expresses dissenting opinions, even resorting to crime - including theft, encouragement to murder, subornation of perjury, and manipulation of the judicial process - to achieve its ends, I have always advocated its disbanding.

  William Kunstler

  Encouragement, Kings, Believe

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• It is profoundly troubling when you have Supreme Court justices not following their judicial oath. And taking the role of policy makers and legislators, rather than being judges.

  Ted Cruz

  Justice, Judging, Roles

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. July 5, 2015.

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• It is especially imperative for Congress to exercise careful judgment in this area, because of the difficulty under existing laws, in obtaining judicial review of Postal Service abuses. ...We strongly oppose the legislation's infringement of rights guaranteed under the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution.

  John Shattuck

  Exercise, Dark, Rights

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• In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army acting as judge, jury and executioner.

  Kirby Page

  War, Army, Judging

  Kirby Page (1976). “Kirby Page and the social gospel: an anthology”, Dissertations-G

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• All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Aggravation, Office, Effort

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• EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Power, Government

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.59, 谷月社

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• But then a daring evasion by a leading conveyancer, known as the Lease and Release, received judicial sanction; and commenced a successful career of more than 200 years. The Lease and Release, attributed to Serjeant Moore, was based on the fact that the Statute of Inrolments did not apply to terms of years.

  Edward Jenks

  Successful, Years, Careers

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn and each stationary.

  Philip Guedalla

  Punishment, Justice, Sides

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• Men must always have distinguished (e.g. in judicial matters) between hearsay and seeing with one's own eyes and have preferred what one has seen to what he has merely heard from others. But the use of this distinction was originally limited to particular or subordinate matters. As regards the most weighty matters the first things and the right way the only source of knowledge was hearsay.

  Leo Strauss

  Eye, Men, Use

  Leo Strauss (1953). “Natural Right and History”, p.86, University of Chicago Press

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• Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is.

  Alex Kozinski

  Magic, Looks, Process

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• In the rare event that the Supreme Court refuses to play along [...] there is always a perfectly legal, extra-constitutional, quasi-legislative, quasi-executive, quasi-judicial, "independent" regulatory commission or executive agency to kill off or override constitutional protections.

  Ilana Mercer

  Independent, Agency, Play

  "Quacking Over Ducksters As Freedoms Go Poof". www.wnd.com. January 3, 2014.

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• I know of no case in which you are to have a judicial proceeding, by which a man is to be deprived of any part of his property, without his having an opportunity of being heard.

  Bayley

  Opportunity, Men, Cases

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• It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests and talents pertinent to the court's role. Otherwise the sound principle of substantial deference to a president's choice of judicial nominees will dissolve into a rationalization for senatorial abdication of the duty to hold presidents to some standards of seriousness that will prevent them from reducing the Supreme Court to a private plaything useful for fulfilling whims on behalf of friends.

  George Will

  Years, Choices, Important

  "Can This Nomination Be Justified?" by George F. Will, www.washingtonpost.com. October 5, 2005.

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• It's not just that Miers has zero judicial experience. It's that she's so transparently a crony/"diversity" pick while so many other vastly more qualified and impressive candidates went to waste. If this is President Bush's bright idea to buck up his sagging popularity--among conservatives as well as the nation at large--one wonders whom he would have picked in rosier times. Shudder.

  Michelle Malkin

  Zero, Ideas, Diversity

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• Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary judicial power, instead of a limitation on all government power.

  Thomas Sowell

  Wise, Clever, Men

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• Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once in a while a Thomas Reed Powell gets away with an imaginary judicial opinion that gives a real twist to the lion's tail. Once in a while a Thurman Arnold forgets his footnotes as though to say that if people do not believe or understand him that is their worry and not his. But even such mild breaches of etiquette as these are tolerated gingerly and seldom, and are likely to be looked at a little askance by the writers' more pious brethren.

  Fred Rodell

  Beautiful, Real, Believe

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• The rule of God is not tyranny, for it does not partake of a political or governmental character -- it is not a rule of authority. God is not a governor of the universe, for a governor rules over those of a like nature with himself, and exercises a political and judicial power, while God exercises a creative, a preserving, and a determinative power of an altogether different kind. If I am a servant of God, I am under no tyranny; for God does not govern, but supports, sustains, and directs me.

  William Batchelder Greene

  God, Character, Exercise

  William Batchelder Greene, Jakob Böhme, Antoine Fabre d'Olivet, Philippe-Joseph-Benjamin Buchez (1849). “Remarks on the science of history: followed by An a priori autobiography”, p.35

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