Quotes with courts

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  • Albert Einstein Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Alexander Herzen You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bob Barr Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Alexander Pope I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Anthony Holden It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Lord Chesterfield Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bob Geldof Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they're left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Bill Dedman Polygraphs are not allowed as evidence in most U.S. courts, but they're routinely used in police investigations, and the Defense Department relies heavily on them for security screening.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bill Dedman State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts or private ones.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Seneca The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Adolf Loos The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Hubert Humphrey There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Bob Ney This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein We live in a period in which political disagreements are routinely handed over to the courts. Whenever you think that the president is wrong, you might well cry out that he has violated the Constitution - and ask federal judges to rule accordingly.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Washington Irving Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Denis Diderot The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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