Courts Quotes

Judges ... rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

The efficiency of our criminal jury system is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

The detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment – after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

Judges ought to remember, that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.

Agree, for the law is costly.

When a judge puts on his robes, he puts off his relations to any, and, like Melchisedech, becomes without pedigree.

A good and faithful judge prefers what is right to what is expedient.

I have always thought from my earliest youth until now, that the greatest scourge an angry heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and a sinning people, was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.