Books Quote by Max Allan Collins

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

— Anonymous

“If Columbus had an advisory committee, he would probably still be at the dock.” Arthur J. Goldberg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, 1962–1965,…

— Max Allan Collins

“A New York banker toasted the Supreme Court in 1895: “I give you, gentlemen, the Supreme Court of the United States—guardian of the dollar,…

— Howard Zinn

“To get what you want, stop doing what isn’t working.” Earl Warren, Thirtieth Governor of the State of California, Fourteenth Chief Justice of the…

— Max Allan Collins

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

— Anonymous

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

— Dan Abrams

“...indeed it is in the General Cemetery that the results of progress are set out before the eyes of the studious or the merely…

— José Saramago

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

— George Eliot

I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a…

— Rand Paul

“I asked once, and the library assistant told me there were more than a hundred thousand books there, and more than sixty million pages…

— Geraldine Brooks

“The rules of war for federal court were contained in the 86 rules of federal civil procedure, the rules of the local federal court,…

— Kenneth Eade

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

— Joseph J. Ellis