#judges

Judges are appointed often through the political process. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

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

— Warren E. Burger

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We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

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But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there. ↗

— Judge Mills Lane

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Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it. ↗

— Jane Porter

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The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

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When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers. ↗

— William Kunstler

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