Quotes About Court

We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.

The Miami Heat floor is great, but a lot of them are not.

I have a street mind. My whole mindset when I first got to the NBA was, 'I'm bringing that street to the game,' and, 'I'm going to be the hardest guy on the court; I'm going to be the hardest guy on the planet.'

On March 9, 1937, Roosevelt told the nation that the Court was ruling not just against himself and Congress, but against the will of the American people, themselves.

for one hundred years people have believed that the 1886 case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad did in fact conclude that "corporations are persons." But this book will show that the Court never stated this: it was added by the court reporter who wrote the introduction to the decision, a commentary called a headnote.

Aber vor Gericht gehen, das kann ich nicht, sage ich. Man müßte da jeden Tag vor Gericht gehen und wegen allem und jedem vor Gericht gehen und schließlich die ganzen Kräfte, die man hat, mit Gerichtsbarkeiten verschwenden, ein Mensch könne sich leicht sein ganzes Leben lang nur in Prozessen erschöpfen, die zu führen er immer Anlaß habe. Im Grunde müßte jeder mit jedem andauernd Prozesse führen, sage ich.

Nothing like perpetual litigation to age a man before his time.

Astronomy is as soil'd at the hands of the Pelhamites as ev'ry other Business in this Kingdom,— and we ever at the mercy of Place-jobbery, as much as any Nincompoop at Court.

What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.

A Yoruba governor, defeated through vote fraud, was later found by a court to have won in fact by a million votes.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love." Sir Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel, 1805

Edward Progers was his Majesty's Page of the Backstairs. He handled private money transactions, secret correspondence, and served in an ex-officio capacity as the King's pimp. It was a position of no mean prestige, and of considerable activity.

Lords and ladies,

Saya doakan semoga operasi Anda berjalan lancar. Bagaimanapun, saya ingin Anda tetap hidup. Karena pengadilan telah menanti Anda.

Lawyers get you out'n the kind of trouble you'd never get in if there was no lawyers.

The cause of this century's brutality is not simply the evil that lies in some men's hearts. It is also our collective failure to build on the Nuremberg precedent by ensuring that all such killers are brought to justice. -Toward An International Criminal Court

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

local jury trial'—that's the vicinage.

but as anybody who's ever been involved with the law will tell you, facts aren't always or even usually what decides a case.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

Make them imagine repentance more like an appearance in court before a cranky old judge, less like a child knocking on his father's study door to have a chat.

World history is a court of judgment

Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, and to institute a court of justice, by which reason may secure its rightful claims while dismissing all its groundless pretensions, and this not by mere decrees but according to its own eternal and unchangeable laws; and this court is none other than the critique of pure reason itself.

Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is a deadly danger of winning