Constitution Quote by Cardinal Richelieu

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that…

— Robert Bork

As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are…

— Thomas Jefferson

We don't pay judges to think; we pay judges to rule on the law.

— Jeff Sessions

Everybody is presumed to know the law except His Majesty's judges, who have a Court of Appeal set over them to put them right.

— William Henry Maule

Judges are required by our democratic system not to overstep their positions to become policy makers or super-legislators.

— Chuck Grassley

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

— Lamar S. Smith

Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both…

— Kapil Sibal

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political…

— Hugo Black

Independent judges have always frustrated governments that don't see why unelected arbiters of the law should stand in their way.

— Anne Applebaum

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

One of our Constitution's greatest virtues is that it looks to judges as a source of reasoned, practical, rights-minded decision making.

— Neal Katyal

Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live…

— John Roberts