Quotes with judges

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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made law is secondary and subordinate to the law that is made by legislators.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Alexander Pope The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Michel Foucault The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the ''social worker'' -judge.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Alcee Hastings The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Cass Sunstein Trump is more performance artist than zealot. But he's finding enemies everywhere, whether they are judges of Mexican ancestry, parents of those killed in war, the current president, or children of immigrants. Whether or not he has a sense of decency, he is in grave danger of losing it.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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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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  • Terence What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Bill Kristol While a defeat for Obamacare in the Court would be nice, the defeat of President Obama at the polls on November 6 is crucial. If electoral victory is achieved, Obamacare can and will be repealed - and more judges of a constitutionalist persuasion will be appointed by the next president.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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