Judge Quotes
Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!
Harold H. Greene
Former Judge
When the code of laws is once fixed, it should be observed in the literal sense, and nothing more is left to the judge than to determine whether an action is or is not conformable to the written law.
Cesare Beccaria
Italian philosopher
Of course, the Supreme Court's work is vital not just to a region of the country, but to the whole, vital to the protection of the people's liberties under law and to the continuity of our Constitution, the greatest charter of human liberty the world has ever known.
Neil Gorsuch
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
There is no more potent weapon in any profession than a woman with a feminine exterior and a will of steel, and I defy you to find one man who will disagree.
Maryanne Trump Barry
American attorney
The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Former Judge
Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.
Hugo Black
Former U.S. senator
Justice Kennedy devoted his career to securing liberty. I am deeply honored to be nominated to fill his seat on the Supreme Court.
Brett Kavanaugh
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
American Jurist
If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
Harold H. Greene
Former Judge
But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution.
Antonin Scalia
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
With respect to the legal justifications or the policies relating to the treatment of detainees, I was not aware of any issues on that or the legal memos that subsequently came out until the summer, sometime in 2004, when there started to be news reports on that.
Brett Kavanaugh
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
I refuse to believe that 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...' is now an empty entreaty. But if it is, shame on us.
Maryanne Trump Barry
American attorney
The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
Charles Evans Hughes
Former United States Secretary of State
In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.
Don Willett
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Values that I would be enforcing if I were a judge are not just my values, that I am not striking something down simply because I don't like it. That is a countermajoritarian aspect of our system of government. I would start with the text.
Raymond Kethledge
Judge
I like beer.
Brett Kavanaugh
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
I won't write about a subject unless I've mastered it.
Raymond Kethledge
Judge
I revere the Constitution.
Brett Kavanaugh
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.
Arthur Goldberg
Former United States Secretary of Labor
Serving 27 million Texans spread across 254 counties and two time zones isn't a job for those who require a lot of sleep.
Don Willett
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
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