Courts Quotes

325 Courts quotes by 266 unique authors

Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million… — Storm Jameson
The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the… — Ayn Rand
Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial… — Stephen Harper
I think it's a typical hidden agenda of the Liberal party... They had the courts do it for them, they put the judges in they… — Stephen Harper
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… — Byron White
The courts are run on COMMERCIAL CONTRACT LAW and that is has NOTHING to do with any IN-LAW procedures whatsoever. So the nature of the… — Jack Smith
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
The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many… — Marvin Olasky
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,… — Alcee Hastings
All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out - in prose,… — Robert Kennedy
Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is… — Khalil Gibran
Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the… — Matt Taibbi
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… — Adolf Loos
Only in psychiatry is the existence of physical disease determined by APA presidential proclamations, by committee decisions, and even, by a vote of the members… — Peter Breggin
We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of the Queen-Elizabeth-Slept-Here variety.… — Jean Plaidy
The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government. — William Weld
Today most habeas involves the federal courts overriding state convictionswhere it used to be mostly the reverse. — Anthony Gregory
The left has chosen the courts as a major battlefield over social issues. — Rod Parsley
Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our police and our… — Milton Friedman
You've got criminal courts and child welfare officials refusing to do their jobs and protect children so they can shift the cases over to family… — Anne Stevenson
Give vocational training to the manually minded, and the children's courts of the future will have less to do. — Lewis E. Lawes
The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode… — George Minot
I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through. — Karen Joy Fowler
Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her… — Seneca the Younger

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