Cases Quote by Samuel Alito

Judges should follow the law in deciding cases - not their own values, good or bad.

— Wendy Long

The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge…

— Alan Paton

Being a judge is sometimes like raising children: litigants get the time they need, not necessarily the time they want, and you have to…

— Steven Pacey

The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.

— Sonia Sotomayor

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

— Mike DeWine

Who can judge the judge?

— Kami Garcia

Good judges do not side with anyone. They rule impartially and blindly based upon the law.

— Wendy Long

A judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law.

— Brett Kavanaugh

Perhaps most important, judges will have goals. And because this is so, judges will often try to mold and steer the law in order…

— Elena Kagan

The judges are subject to the law.

— Yoav Gallant

It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves…

— Aristotle

A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the…

— Jean de la Bruyere