Fine Quote by Irving Kaufman

I just don't think we think about jurists as rock stars or great thinkers, particularly in the political world.

— Dahlia Lithwick

“There is hardly any political question in the United States that sooner or later does not turn into a judicial question. From that, the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion…

— Francis Bacon

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion…

— Francis Bacon

Judicial excellence requires an understanding that the law is more than an intellectual game and more than a mental exercise. He or she must…

— Herb Kohl

To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when…

— Jonathan Mayhew

My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system,…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.

— Henry David Thoreau

All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial.

— Sonia Sotomayor

Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must admit that…

— Paul Valery

“MOST legislators have been men of inferior capacity whom chance exalted over their fellows, and who took counsel almost exclusively of their own prejudices…

— Montesquieu