Controversial Quote by Deborah Rhode

Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth…

— Jonathan Swift

“Contemporaries cannot be good judges.”

— Italo Calvino

It's very sad that activist judges, who speak at length about the injustices of the past when the rule of law was ignored over…

— Mark Robinson

The judiciary has fallen to a very low state in this country. I think your part of the country has suffered especially. The federal…

— William Howard Taft

But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to…

— Arlen Specter

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

— John Locke

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

— Matt Gonzalez

I think judges have to have the ability to put aside their personal views and rule on the facts of the case with fidelity…

— Susan Collins

What I've learned over the years... judges are conscientious... not like lawyers, who give opinions.

— Richard Cordray

A man cannot speak but he judges himself

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

— Francis Bacon

“False judges are held up in the world’s admiration and I alone know the true ones.”

— Albert Camus