Court Quotes - Page 2

• Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Aggravation, Challenges, Congress

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• The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

  Adolf Loos

  Law, People, Secret

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• It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.

  William O. Douglas

  People, Trying

  "The Court years, 1939-1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas‎". Book by William O. Douglas, 1980.

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• But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.

  David Dinkins

  Brown, Lawsuit

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• Insults are the business of the court.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Business, Comeback, Insult

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• I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws of this land, albeit with the divergent opinions. I shudder that my colleagues do not understand the dynamics of the Federal judiciary.

  Alcee Hastings

  Believe, Law, Land

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• 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.

  Learned Hand

  Love, Freedom, Hate

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

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• Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Decision, Understanding, Doubt

  "Empathy Cited As Important By Many Court Nominees (And Today’s Scritti Politti)" By Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2009.

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• I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.

  Patricia Ireland

  Running, House, President

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• You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Teaching, Games

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• What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless

  Law, Different, May

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• Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough

  Mary Pierce

  Winning, Expectations, Stuff

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• If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

  Belva Ann Lockwood

  War, Law, Practice

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• Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Country, Borders, Looks

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• There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Hostility

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• I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial.

  Dennis Kozlowski

  Should Have, Trials, Firsts

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• I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.

  John Ashcroft

  Play, Half

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• The courts cannot garnish a fathers salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.

  June Jordan

  Children, Father, Kids

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.159, Basic Books

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• Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they're left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids

  Bob Geldof

  Kids, Men, Dressing Up

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• You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts

  Stephen Breyer

  Law, People, Trials

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• In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.

  Jimmy Carter

  Respect, Book, Commitment

  Jimmy Earl Carter “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Jimmy Carter, 1978, Book 1: January 1 to June 30, 1978”, Government Printing Office

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• We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.

  Christine Pelosi

  Decision, Should, Congress

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• My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.

  Ricardo Lagos

  Country, Jobs, Promise

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• The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

  Thomas Huxley

  Thinking, Authority, Appeals

  "\Rhetoric and Incommensurability". Book by Randy Allen Harris (p. 228), 2005.

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• Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress

  Joyce Cary

  Mean, Artist, Law

  Joyce Cary (1957). “THE HORSE'S MOUTH”

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