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Judges Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the…
- The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity…
- It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to…
- If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the…
- It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good…
- One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.
- [T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own…
- The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration…
- History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as…
- The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.
- As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading…
- For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum
- If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It…
More Judges Quotes
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann
- What I don't like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint justices who… — Michele Bachmann
- Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. — Francis Bacon
- Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is… — Francis Bacon
- Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines. — Alec Baldwin
- The more one judges, the less one loves. — Honore de Balzac
- All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table. — Gary Bauer
- Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and… — Max Beerbohm
- Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. — Ambrose Bierce
- Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each… — Hugo Black
- God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer