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The big guys, the big dogs, are going to own everything from the White House to the courthouse. -- Brian Schweitzer
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process. -- Thurgood Marshall
Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door. -- William Rehnquist
Anyone who's had a shower and hasn't ingested illegal narcotics within a couple of days stands out on a bench in the courthouse. -- Alafair Burke
The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden chord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors. -- Hakim Bey
I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse. -- Jim Thompson
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window. -- Gilles Deleuze
I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy. -- Flavor Flav
That you know flag flying over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't. -- Bruce Springsteen
If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse. -- Bill Veeck
Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant? How about a black person walking up the steps of a courthouse carrying a briefcase? -- Myrna Loy
In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse. -- Petrus Borel
Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. -- Ginny Brown-Waite
The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go to the feed store, or the country courthouse without running into storytellers. -- Charles Kuralt
I'm proud to be an Oakie from Muskogee, a place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse and white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all. -- Merle Haggard
When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes. -- Janet Flanner
I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old courthouse, the train depot, Mount [Jumbo] and Mount Sentinel rising up, the neon bars, the funky festivity of a college town . -- Garrison Keillor
The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public. -- Clarence Darrow
Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in interrogation rooms and courthouses. Instead, it's a cocktail party between friends and colleagues who from month to month and year to year are constantly switching sides and trading hats. -- Matt Taibbi
We got married drunk in Vegas . . . We dated for a year, and we got married at a drive-through chapel in a cab. [We thought] you have to go down to the courthouse and sign papers and stuff, so who knew? We were married, and apparently now that [Rob] is getting married for real, his lawyer dug up something. -- Janeane Garofalo
I beseech ye . . . , think that ye may be mistaken.' I should like to have that written over the portals of every church, every school, and every courthouse, and, may I say, of every legislative body in the United States. I should like to have every court begin, 'I beseech ye . . . , think that we may be mistaken.' -- Learned Hand
Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green. -- James Howard Kunstler

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