Courts Quotes

Courts Quote of the day

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

I have always believed that my job is to try and give my best on the tennis courts.

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.

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.

The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution damned by God Almighty.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.

I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.

I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.

Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts.

Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons?

When a man admits guilt we have to believe him. We cannot set ourselves to proving to him that he is wrong. Otherwise the law courts would never function.

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.

No terms, no conditions, no promises, no commitment, and no institution—but only another example of what happens when law and politics attempt to regulate a religious institution.

Fair is irrelevant. This is the law – it has nothing to do with justice.

Maintaining a fair and accessible justice system should at all times be the overarching concern of Government