Church Quote by Jonathan Swift

While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a…

— Conrad Black

Though this motion for a new trial is an application to the discretion of the Court, it must be remembered that the discretion to…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

— Blaise Pascal

It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“Men are generally more law-abiding than women. Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do…

— Diane Johnson

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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

Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say, and I…

— Fanny Fern

Sometimes I think the public judges the mistakes of lawmen too quickly.

— Mike Connors

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it excels the…

— Bertrand Russell

[The] discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny . . .

— Edward Gibbon