Democracy Quote by Felix Frankfurter

Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two…

— Felix Frankfurter

What we are lacking in Burma is an independence effective judiciary, and unless we have all three of the democratic institutions - strong and…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is…

— Michael Ignatieff

Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers…

— Felix Frankfurter

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,…

— James Madison

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have…

— Rose Bird

“The judicial wheel is rounded with equality, oiled with honour and functions smoothly with honesty – principally when both members of the Bench and…

— Munindra Misra

The intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our founding principles. It's an…

— Anonymous

The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy…

— Anonymous

My concerns through the years increased about the concerns of an independent judiciary and how we maintain it. Certainly in the states. I'm a…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an…

— Barack Obama

What's insulting to the American people, the Senate, to this whole process is that the Republicans, with all other nominees, have said Democrats are…

— Rachel Maddow