Ability Quote by William O. Douglas Download Open image “The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.” — William O. Douglas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ability Court Educate Great power Leadership Moral Moral leadership Power
“A leader must be taught or made to know the importance of justice for the people.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all,… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Supreme Court nominees should know that this exercise of judicial restraint is the key ingredient of being good judge, as the Constitution constrains judges… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
Sometimes Supreme Court justices surprise you with their decisions - you think they're going to vote one way, but they vote a different way,… — Sunny Hostin Copy Share Image
The Court's primary duty, in short, is not to minimize its role or avoid friction with the political branches, but to try as best… — Diane S. Sykes Copy Share Image
The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole -… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a direct correlation between my sexuality and my skiing ability. But I think because I was so concerned about it… — Gus Kenworthy Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
I've seen guys come along with more ability - they've been faster or bigger or stronger - but they never worked hard to develop… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
The youth of India has the strength to move the entire World with a click of a mouse, we have generated that ability! — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength,… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
