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"As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may indeed injure them in fame or in fortune; but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised    Share

"Jefferson was against any needless official apparel, but if the gown was to carry, he said: For Heavens sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum. "

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"In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily. "

Taft, William Howard on uncategorised    Share

"Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth. Architecture aims at Eternity. "

Wren, Sir Christopher on uncategorised    Share

"When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself. "

Webster, Daniel on uncategorised    Share

"Nature has but one judgment on wrong conductif you can call that a judgment which seemingly has no reference to conduct as suchthe judgment of death. "

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on uncategorised    Share

"The firmness with which the people have withstood the late abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment between them. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised    Share

"I do not think the United States would come to an end if we lost our power to declare an Act of Congress void. I do think the Union would be imperiled if we could not make that declaration as to the laws of the several States. "

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on uncategorised    Share

"John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!"

Jackson, Andrew on uncategorised    Share

"The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised    Share

"Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. "

Aeschylus on uncategorised    Share

"Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice. "

Augustine, St. on uncategorised    Share

"What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?"

Bible on uncategorised
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. "

Burke, Edmund on uncategorised    Share

"No, no! said the Queen. Sentence firstverdict afterwards. "

Carroll, Lewis on uncategorised    Share

"Theres the Kings Messenger. Hes in prison now, being punished: and the trial doesnt begin until next Wednesday: and of course the crime comes last of all. Suppose he never commits the crime? said Alice. That would be all the better, wouldnt it? the Queen said. "

Carroll, Lewis on uncategorised    Share

"Sir, I say that justice is truth in action. "

Disraeli, Benjamin on uncategorised    Share

"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised
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"They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice. "

Penn, William on uncategorised    Share

"But Justice, though her dome [doom] she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right. "

Spenser, Edmund on uncategorised    Share

"His hands would plait the priests guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings. "

Diderot, Denis on uncategorised    Share

"The trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so much that aint so. "

Billings, Josh on uncategorised    Share

"If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised
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"A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. "

Madison, James on uncategorised    Share

"Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect. "

Ibsen, Henrik on uncategorised    Share

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. "

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised    Share

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