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Judging Quotes by Felix Frankfurter
- It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.
- There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point…
- No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.
- One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution...…
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- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if… — Saint Augustine
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann
- I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? — Douglas Adams
- 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
- Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than… — Francis Bacon
- Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. — Francis Bacon
- Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. — Francis Bacon
- The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. — Lord Acton
- 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