Judges are the people who have to protect the rights of individuals, have to protect the rights of minorities, have to protect… — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A local spirit will infallibly prevail much more in the members of Congress than a national spirit will prevail in the legislatures… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Executive is charged officially in the Departments under it with the disbursement of the public money, and is responsible for the… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
The first time I ran for office in 2002, running for governor in Massachusetts against Mitt Romney, we actually worked with a… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature. It has gone from being a sending country… — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that… — James Otis Copy Share Image
It does look like it's almost like South Africa to this extent: You have a white - what's the word - feeble… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
The regular distribution of power into distinct departments; the introduction of legislative balances and checks; the institution of courts composed of judges… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The problem with Keith Ellison's message and what you all are saying - and I - and I respect what you're saying… — Mary Matalin Copy Share Image
I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Although I entertain great respect and regard for the female sex I consider the qualifications of the ladies to be already sufficiently… — James Francis Copy Share Image
It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
I mean, we'll be pounding on the guy's chest, you know, on the floor, and you know, he's not going to just… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts,… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature,… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image