Supreme Court Quotes
251 Supreme Court quotes by 195 unique authors
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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right…
— Bob Barr
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I don't believe that Jesus would approve abortion except in the case of incest, rape or the mother's life in danger. But I had to…
— Jimmy Carter
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In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by…
— John Henrik Clarke
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In the wake of the Supreme Court of Canada decision (Chaoulli-Zeliotis), the Canadian Medicare system is about to be redesigned. Physicians must not just sit…
— Brian Day
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Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of…
— Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
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We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women) - Presidents, Supreme…
— Katha Pollitt
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Marriage was created by the hand of God. No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has instituted.
— Michele Bachmann
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I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick Douglass and I would read.…
— Clarence Thomas
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We became a congresswoman, a stay-at-home mom, a filmmaker, and a journalist. And Lino and I taught our children that they could rise to even…
— Diana DeGette
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
— Irving Kaufman
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The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows us to view…
— John Shelby Spong
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This is an issue just like 9-11... We didn't decide we wanted to fight the war on terrorism because we wanted to. It was brought…
— Rick Santorum
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I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that when the state punishes with…
— William J. Brennan
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When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the promise that capital…
— Thurgood Marshall
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The White House said today that Judge Clarence Thomas, President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, had smoked marijuana while in college.
— Clarence Thomas
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[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have been given it,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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It's always an uphill battle to defeat a Supreme Court nominee, but this is a fight worth having.
— Kim Gandy
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Watch out Mr. Bush! With the exception of economic policy and energy policy and social issues and tax policy and foreign policy and supreme court…
— Unknown Author
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I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men…
— Julianne Malveaux
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We've never had our injustices rectified from the top, from the president or Congress, or the Supreme Court, no matter what we learned in junior…
— Howard Zinn
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The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual…
— Charlie Daniels
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The state has a right to do that [outlaw contraceptives], I have never questioned that the state has a right to do that. It is…
— Rick Santorum
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