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Judging Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.
- 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.
- The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that…
- I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable every…
- As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading…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 Judging Quotes
- 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