Courts Quotes
Most popular courts quotes
![Judges ... rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times. - Warren E. Burger quote.](/img/q/58/22758A-judges-rule-on-the-basis-of-law-not-public-opinion-warren-e-burger.png)
Judges ... rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
![The efficiency of our criminal jury system is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read. - Mark Twain quote.](/img/q/59/22759A-the-efficiency-of-our-criminal-jury-system-is-only-marred-mark-twain.png)
The efficiency of our criminal jury system is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
![A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. - H. L. Mencken quote.](/img/q/60/22760A-a-judge-is-a-law-student-who-marks-his-own-h-l-mencken.png)
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
![The detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment – after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose. - Robert Orben quote.](/img/q/61/22761A-the-detective-series-on-tv-always-end-at-precisely-right-robert-orben.png)
The detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment – after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose.
![The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates. - Warren E. Burger quote.](/img/q/62/22762A-the-trial-of-a-case-is-three-legged-stool-judge-warren-e-burger.png)
The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.
![Judges ought to remember, that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law. - Francis Bacon quote.](/img/q/63/22763A-judges-ought-to-remember-that-their-office-is-jus-dicere-francis-bacon.png)
Judges ought to remember, that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.
Agree, for the law is costly.
![When a judge puts on his robes, he puts off his relations to any, and, like Melchisedech, becomes without pedigree. - Thomas Fuller quote.](/img/q/65/22765A-when-a-judge-puts-on-his-robes-he-puts-off-thomas-fuller.png)
When a judge puts on his robes, he puts off his relations to any, and, like Melchisedech, becomes without pedigree.
A good and faithful judge prefers what is right to what is expedient.
I have always thought from my earliest youth until now, that the greatest scourge an angry heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and a sinning people, was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary.
![A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. - Robert Frost quote.](/img/q/68/22768A-a-jury-consists-of-twelve-persons-chosen-decide-who-has-robert-frost.png)
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
![Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do. - J. P. Morgan quote.](/img/q/69/22769A-well-i-dont-know-as-i-want-lawyer-tell-me-j-p-morgan.png)
Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.
![For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex. - Gore Vidal quote.](/img/q/70/22770A-for-certain-people-after-fifty-litigation-takes-place-sex-gore-vidal.png)
For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.