Technicality, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: “Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon […]
Court Quotes
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
The Supreme Court of the United States of America is an institution damned by God almighty.
Once Law was sitting on the bench And Mercy knelt a-weeping. “Clear out!” he cried, “disordered wench! Nor come before me creeping. Upon your knees if you appear, ‘Tis plain you have no standing here.” Then Justice came. His Honor cried: “Your states? – Devil seize you!” – “Amica curiae,” she replied – “Friend of […]
Shall I ask what a court would be, unaided? The law is made by the Bar, even more than by the bench.
A place where they dispense with justice.
Posterity, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author’s contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.
Since what one Court can do, another can undo, in the long run it seems to me that those who wish to keep religion out of the public life of a free society should look primarily to the educational processes of democracy itself rather than to the decrees of the Court to extend the secular […]
A crowded police court docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.
If there is any truth to the old proverb that “one who is his own lawyer, has a fool for a client,” the Court… now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.
