Court Quotes - Page 5

• To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

  Pierre Corneille

  Life And Love, Revenge, Hatred

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• It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.

  John Marshall

  Law, Judicial Review, Judicial Branch

  Marbury v. Madison (1803)

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• These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Florida, Law, People

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• It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

  Warren E. Burger

  Taken, Two, Justice

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• Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.

  Henry Timrod

  Lonely, Dark, Lamps

  Henry Timrod (1873). “The Poems of Henry Timrod”, p.131

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• I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court.

  Richard Land

  School, Ivy, League

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

  Tammy Bruce

  People, Care, Break

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• I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

  Harold Pinter

  Believe, Criminals, International

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• There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Government, Example, Documentation

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• The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

  Byron White

  Law, Choices, Morality

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• Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

  Bennie Thompson

  Wisdom, Strong, Successful

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• The dumber you are on court, the better you're going to play.

  Jim Courier

  Play, Tennis

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• Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

  Dan Abrams

  Decision, Argument, Boring

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5 - 4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.

  Lilly Ledbetter

  Retirement, Fighting, Equal Pay

  Lilly Ledbetter's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions.

  Judy Biggert

  Believe, Finals, Should

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• Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

  Phil Donahue

  Interesting, Favors, Airline

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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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.

  Harper Lee

  Integrity, Believe, Reality

  To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 20 (1960)

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• I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time.

  John Newcombe

  Eight, Eric, World

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• If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Diversity, United States, Interest

  "Is affirmative action necessary?", www.cnn.com. December 5, 2002.

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• I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Firsts, Criminals, Alabama

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• Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.

  George Galloway

  War, Blood, Hands

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• I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.

  Martina Hingis

  Sports, Kids, Tennis

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• The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

  Ralph Neas

  Hype, Decision, President

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• The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.

  Antonin Scalia

  Sex, Hippie, Rights

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• I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.

  Bob Menendez

  Law, Land, Due Diligence

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