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Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts.
— Lisa Bonet
Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.
— Ammon Hennacy
Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.
— Alain Robert
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.
— Hannah More
The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.
— Ernest Istook
For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
— Thucydides
One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.
— Oliver Goldsmith
I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell.
— Andrew Jackson
In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
— Jimmy Carter
Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
— Larry Craig
It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law.
— Robert Kennedy
The people believed that while the courts would be independent, they would defer to the political branches on policy issues.
— Sam Brownback
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
— Alexander Herzen
True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.
— Emma Goldman
The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.
— Stockwell Day
Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts.
— Rebecca West
There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.
— Robert Bork
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.
— William J. Clinton
The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.
— Joni Mitchell
The seven Courts of Prythian, each ruled by a High Lord, all of them deadly in their own way. They are not merely powerful-they are Power.
— Sarah J. Maas
Give vocational training to the manually minded, and the children's courts of the future will have less to do.
— Lewis E. Lawes
Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.
— Denis Leary
He was around where the tree-line bulged herniatically out toward the end of the West Courts' fencing.
— David Foster Wallace
If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off.
— Charles Fried
The prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and nothing more pretentious, are what I mean by the law.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.
— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining.
— Robert Burns
The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts.
— Robert Reich
The courts are merely a ruse, if you will, for humanist, atheistic educators to beat up on Christians.
— Pat Robertson
Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.
— David K. Shipler
I believe you [Samuel Alito] and others would look and say that the role of the courts is limited and it's not to decide political matters.
— Sam Brownback
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
— Lord Chesterfield
The courts are as a stage, people love to see attractive players.
— Anna Kournikova
Then the Unseelie Court started raging war against the Seelie Courts of Faeries, especially
— Alexia Purdy
Well my question is if the federal courts don't have jurisdiction over a constitutional question then who the hell does?
— Jesse Ventura
CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.
— Floyd Abrams
The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America.
— Edward R. Murrow
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
— John Milton
Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in.
— Doug Stanhope
A situation where a solution to a stakeholder problem is imposed by a government agency or the courts must be seen as a managerial failure.
— R. Edward Freeman
Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep
— Thomas Jefferson
Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.
— Horace
A fig for those by law protected!
Liberty's a glorious feast!
Courts for cowards were erected,
Churches built to please the priest! — Robert Burns
Liberty's a glorious feast!
Courts for cowards were erected,
Churches built to please the priest! — Robert Burns
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
— Abraham Lincoln
If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.
— Albert Camus
I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.
— Herman Melville
Jesus defied all of these rules. He taught in the outer courts of the Temple so women could join the audience.
— Danny Silk
My friend said to me, 'You don't look good,' - because all the time I have to think about law and justice and courts.
— Bikram Choudhury
I went on the courts with just a ball and a racket and a hope ... and that's all I had.
— Serena Williams
It is not the role of Congress to decide legal cases between private parties. That is why we have courts.
— Jerrold Nadler
Three to four times a week, I get up at 7:30 A.M. while the courts are empty at Venice Beach and play full court one-on-one.
— Missy Peregrym
The protection of our liberties does not ultimately depend on parliaments or even the courts. It depends on the love of the people for liberty.
— Michael Kirby
We didn't raise this issue, the courts raised it. The courts jammed it down our throats, at the risk of insulting any of my gay male fans.
— Ann Coulter
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
— Washington Irving
Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church.
— Johnny Hunt
You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.
— Hank Ketcham
When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.
— Stephen J. Field
The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
— Lemuel K. Washburn
Let [Ted] Cruz - let the people go to the courts and see if he's here legitimately. I don't know. I'm not going to get into that.
— Joe Arpaio
Today most habeas involves the federal courts overriding state convictionswhere it used to be mostly the reverse.
— Anthony Gregory
They know, the courts know, the people know that they have no way of changing the results as it affects them.
— Kenneth Blackwell
I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.
— Karen Joy Fowler
The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.
— John Marshall
The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
— Franz Grillparzer
The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
— Seneca The Elder
[The courts and the media elite] are abolishing America, they are deconstructing our country ... they have dethroned our God.
— Pat Buchanan
For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts.
— Robert Casey
The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.
— Frank Barron
I personally will be overjoyed when the Canadian courts rule to return John Graham back to the US to answer for this brutal murder.
— Robert Robideau
It is honor that makes commerce possible, dear brother. And the law courts, when men lack it.
— Edward Cline
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
— Mahatma Gandhi
What I am for is protecting, with the highest standards in our courts, the religious liberty of Hoosiers.
— Mike Pence
We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Name and fame! to fly sublime Through the courts, the camps, the schools Is to be the ball of Time, Bandied in the hands of fools.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Courts of equity have always considered it of the greatest possible importance that parties should not sleep on their rights.
— Frederick Romilly
So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.
— Jeremy Rifkin
Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
— Mason Cooley
I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders.
— Lindsey Graham
Mob rule can not be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
— Mahesh Bhupathi
The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages.
— Marquis De Lafayette
It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.
— Henry David Thoreau
I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
— Marat Safin
Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.
— Horace