It is a very dangerous doctrine to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions. It is one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.
Court Quotes
Silence (in court) may be equivalent to confession.
When you go into court, you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
A child also cannot be made a witness in a court of law, nor a woman… nor a cheat. . . These persons might give false evidence. A child would speak falsely from ignorance, a woman from want of veracity, an impostor from habitual depravity.
There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court.
Pat Robertson launched a prayer offensive calling for God to make Supreme Court judges he doesn’t like step down. He mentions one is eighty-three, one has cancer, one a heart condition. That isn’t a prayer offensive. That’s an offensive prayer.
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.
You never really know a woman until you meet her in court.