Quotes About Courts

Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or even abuse the limits of their power.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

In Fellowship alone To God with Faith draw near Approach His Courts besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer.

History knows that it can wait for more evidence and review its older verdicts; it offers an endless series of courts of appeal, and is ever ready to reopen closed cases.

The majority recognized that the Court has spent numerous pages revisiting its own cases and those of the Supreme Court and still "disagree vigorously over what is or is not patentable subject matter." Instead, the majority urges district courts to avoid the "swamp of verbiage that is § 101 by exercising their inherent power to control the processes of litigation -Yar Chaikovsky McDermott on MySpace v. Graphon Corp

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

Justice isn't always served in the courts. Sometimes it's served by those who seek it.

Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.

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.

The courts have become grotesquely dictatorial and far too powerful.

When one person does something, you look like an outlier. And whether it makes sense or not, the states get a certain level of respect from the courts that other people don't.

I'm all for accountability courts and helping those who need helping.

Segregation by intentional government action is not de facto. Rather, it is what courts call de jure: segregation by law and public policy.

las facultades de Derecho parecen ofrecer un número muy superior de plazas a las oportunidades de trabajo en el ámbito del Derecho. Y existe, adicionalmente, una inquietud creciente sobre el desproporcionado coste de la defensa procesal ante los tribunales.

So far as I have listened, before a revolution can take place, the population must lose faith in both the police and the courts.

before a revolution can take place, the population must lose faith in both the police and the courts.

There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future

Marriage is a unique cultural relationship that has a long-standing tradition and societal meaning, which should not be redefined by the courts.

The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home.

A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astounded--maybe you wouldn't, maybe you have been around, maybe you have lived, maybe you have thought, maybe you have been hit--at how the daily rounds of injustice make their way through this marvelous thing that we call "due process."

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

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.