We should trust judges to be independent, investigators to be independent. — Eric Swalwell Copy Share Image
Without question, the court does play a vital role in our constitutional system. — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history. — John Henry Wigmore Copy Share Image
The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and… — Roger Mudd Copy Share Image
The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Let this constitution go forth from this convention, and from the new state, a model instrument of liberal and enlightened principles.” — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
The irony is that [Barack] Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Mandatory minimum sentences give no discretion to judges about the amount of time that the person should receive once a guilty verdict… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
I used to say that the Constitution is not a living document. It's dead, dead, dead. But I've gotten better. I no… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The money problem facing the country from 1789 to 1896 existed because Congress never exercised is authority to "coin money or regulate… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
If confirmed, [Judge of the Supreme Court] will write the words that will either broaden or narrow our rights for the rest… — Herb Kohl Copy Share Image
Despite our founding principles and the many ways our constitution has protected individual liberties, we do, let's admit it, have a long… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals… — Stephen A. Douglas Copy Share Image
Men who profess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the common interest of their fellow subjects; and act… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is the imperative and indispensable duty of the Government of the United States to secure to every resident inhabitant the free… — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
In the founding days of the Constitution, the purpose of the media was to make sure that powerful government officials were held… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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