Quotes with court

  • If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?
  • Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.

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  • Alphonse De Lamartine A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
    Alphonse De Lamartine
    French poet, statesman and historian (1790 - 1869)
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  • Bennie Thompson Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Brendan Behan I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Henry Waldorf Francis A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.
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  • Carl von Clausewitz A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.
    On War (1832) Ch. 17
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • William Somerset Maugham A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bob Beauprez After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was - a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Bobby Seale All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.
    Interview with The Guardian (February 1970)
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Bernhard Schlink As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being heard I need to do it, but I wouldn't assign a special wisdom and responsibility to writers.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Brad Gilbert Because you can't change results - I would change my losses, and I would definitely like to see on-court coaching.
    Brad Gilbert
    American tennis player (1961 - )
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  • O. Henry Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Cass Sunstein Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bob Barr Clearly, the court today has ignored the constitutional right and responsibility of Congress to pass laws protecting citizens from dangerous and addictive narcotics...
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Bill Kristol Conservatives shouldn't count on the Supreme Court to do our work for us on Obamacare. The Court may rule as it should, and strike down the mandate. But it may not. And even if it does, the future of health care in America - and for that matter, the future of limited government - depends ultimately on the verdict of the American people.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Bob Barr Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Henry Waldorf Francis Dictum is what a court thinks but is afraid to decide.
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  • Barbara Mikulski Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Carl Rowan Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.
    Inside Washington, March 20, 1993.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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