Court System Quotes

You don’t have a staff General, you have a court.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

[The Utopians] have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

The judicial branch of the government is the least dangerous because … it has no influence over either the sword or the purse.

The court that serves America should reflect America.

Judges are not members of Congress, they're not state legislators, governors, nor presidents. Their job is not to pass laws, implement regulations, nor to make policy.

How long will it be before the cry goes up: "Let's kill all the judges"?

I believe in the jury system.

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

The job of a justice is justice.

You go to traffic court in many locations throughout the country, and you can spell justice - J-U-S-T dash U-S. Just us.

Justice is the well water of the city of Novgorod, black and sweet.

Hitherto, this tyranny of slaveholders over non-slaveholding citizens has been mainly confined to slaveholding communities. But Slavery has of late arrogantly claimed to be national. Congress is sanctioning the usurpation, and the Federal Courts and even State Courts are boldly enforcing it. In violation of the Constitution, Congress compels the non-slaveholders in the free States to capture and deliver the fugitive slave. Congress at its last session was on the eve of subverting the original, honored jurisdiction of State Courts over Federal officers

You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.

One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.

And let no one apply to the king in any suit, unless he at home may not be worthy of law, or cannot obtain law.

Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.

The court of public opinion is open 24 hours a day.

There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of few.

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

The common People are filled with good words from Pulpits and Councel Tables, but no good Deeds; For they wait and wait for good, and for deliverances, but none comes; While they wait for liberty, behold greater bondage comes insteed of it, and burdens, oppressions, taskmasters, from Sessions, Lawyers, Bayliffs of Hundreds, Committees, Impropriators, Clerks of Peace, and Courts of Justice, so called, does whip the People by old Popish weather- beaten Laws, that were excommunicate long ago by Covenants, Oaths, and Ordinances; but as yet are not cast out, but rather taken in again, to be standing pricks in our eys, and thorns in our side

Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone will be punished mistakenly.

Almost all law in the United States is State law.