Court Quotes

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  We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Men, Democracies Have

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• The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Christmas, Wise

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

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• 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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• When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

  Norm Crosby

  Funny, Hilarious, Smart

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• The left has chosen the courts as a major battlefield over social issues.

  Rod Parsley

  Issues, Social, Chosen

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• The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature.

  George Minot

  People, Mind, Stopping

  George Richards Minot (1810). “The History of the Insurrections in Massachusetts: In the Year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Six. And the Rebellion Consequent Thereon”, p.39, Boston : J.W. Burditt

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• I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

  Kurt Loder

  Criminals, Covering, Trials

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• Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.

  John Doolittle

  Country, Teacher, Children

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• If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.

  John Bates Clark

  Men, Gains, Violence

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• The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office.

  John Jay Hooker

  Justice, Office, Economy

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• The courts are as a stage, people love to see attractive players.

  Anna Kournikova

  Sports, Player, People

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• Hewitt is such a fighter on the court; he never gives up. They all have qualities to beat him.

  Richard Krajicek

  Giving Up, Quality, Fighter

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• While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.

  Ernest Istook

  Religious, Years, Speech

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• We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.

  Anita Hill

  Race, Justice, Prejudice

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• Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.

  Larry Craig

  Issues, People, Political

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• There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on.

  Paul Castellano

  Hands, Law, Promise

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

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• Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Needs, Clients, Privilege

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• I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

  Harper Lee

  Integrity, Believe, Reality

  To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 20 (1960)

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• When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Book, America, Quality

  "The Supreme Court in the American System of Government". Book by Robert H. Jackson, p. 30, 1955.

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• If, in a few months, I'm only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I'll have to look at what off-the-court work I can do. I will need to do something if I want to be number 1.

  John McEnroe

  Numbers, Needs, Looks

  The New York Times, February 9, 1987.

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• You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

  Alexander Herzen

  Passion, Law, Facts

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• I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.

  Pete Coors

  Believe, Men, Littles

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• A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.

  Charles Edison

  Simple, Awkward, Confusing

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• The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

  Ernest Istook

  Firsts, First Amendment, Should

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• Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.

  Alain Robert

  Done, Understood

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