Independent Judiciary Quotes

• All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

  Andrew Jackson

  Independent, Rights, Citizens

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

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• The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mean, Independent, Wind

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• The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

  James Madison

  Government, Hands, Political

  The Federalist no. 47 (1788)

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• A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Independent, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.346

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• So long as we mayhavean independent Judiciary, the great interests of the people will be safe.

  John Rutledge

  Independent, Long, People

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• The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder.

  Arundhati Roy

  Independent, Mean, Profound

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• An independent judiciary does not mean judges independent of the Constitution from which they derive their power or independent of the laws that they are sworn to uphold.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Independent, Law

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• Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.

  Hinton Rowan Helper

  Freedom Of Speech, Slavery, Opinion

  Hinton Rowan Helper (1860). “The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it”, p.436

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• The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.

  Ted Olson

  Independent, Reality, Government

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• The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Independent, Paper, Constitution

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• The judiciary in Burma is not independent. It's widely known, everybody knows that.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Independent, Burma, Judiciary

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• I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.

  Bob Woodward

  Work, Believe, Independent

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.

  Hans Frank

  Independent, Justice, Firsts

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• My concerns through the years increased about the concerns of an independent judiciary and how we maintain it. Certainly in the states. I'm a product of state government in my own state of Arizona. And it seemed to me that the popular election of judges was creating major problems in many states, and we had improved the system in Arizona. And I thought the nation ought to at least rethink how we select our nation's trial judges in the states.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Independent, Creating, Government

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Irans theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules.

  Elliott Abrams

  Independent, Iran, Freedom Of Speech

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• Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Independent, Israel, Culture Religion

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an independent judiciary, and fighting corruption, those are principles that, you know, not perfectly but generally, we have tried to apply not just in our own country but also with respect to our foreign policy.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Taken, Independent

  Source: time.com

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• I think [John Adams's] influence on the federal Constitution was indirect. Many including James Madison mocked the first volume of Adams's Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787. But his Massachusetts constitution was a model for those who thought about stable popular governments, with its separation of powers, its bicameral legislature, its independent judiciary, and its strong executive.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Strong, Independent, Thinking

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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