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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society. -- Robert Owen
Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep. -- Thomas Jefferson
Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in. -- Doug Stanhope
A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts. -- Benjamin Franklin
We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville. -- Charles Bukowski
Courts of equity have always considered it of the greatest possible importance that parties should not sleep on their rights. -- Frederick Romilly
In Fellowship; alone To God, with Faith, draw near, Approach His Courts, besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer. -- Charles Wesley
Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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
I should be extremely sorry to find that in a fictitious proceeding, instituted for the more easy attaining of justice, different rules were to obtain in the different Courts. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people. We're bound to be "anti-majoritarian." -- Rose Bird
Courts in America seem to be so political, and it would be so great for our justice system if they would be able to read a statement and do what's right. -- Donald Trump
...the Stone Table [was] a place that served as the OK Corral for the Faerie Courts when they decided to engage in diplomacy by means of murdering anyone on the other team. -- Jim Butcher
No stops are ever inserted in Acts of Parliament, or in deeds; but the Courts of law, in construing them, must read them with such stops as will give effect to the whole. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics. -- Jonathan Swift
Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders. -- Bob Barr
Courts are supposed to be places of reason. But this, of course, is a fantasy. I mean, there is reason being used as a technique. But courts, in fact, are baths of emotions. -- Helen Garner
The Courts must declare the sense of the law; and if they should be disposed to exercise will instead of judgement; the consequences would be the substitution of their pleasure for that of the legislative body. -- Alexander Hamilton
Say what you will about Queen Eleanor, she was a savvy, quick-witted woman who made her mark on history. And as the founder of the Courts of Love, what better patron monarch could there be for a romantic novelist? -- Lauren Willig
There is no separation of church and state. Modern US Supreme Courts have raped the Constitution and raped the Christian faith and raped the churches by misinterpreting what the Founders had in mind in the First Amendment to the Constitution. -- Jerry Falwell
It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a Court can represent, yet there are wrongs which in fact legislatures cannot be brought to take an interest in, at least not until the Courts have acted. -- Learned Hand
I have always believed that my job is to try and give my best on the tennis courts. -- Sania Mirza
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this. -- Marat Safin
The marketplace can handle this. The laws are there. The courts have shown a consistent ability to find a balance between copyright owners and copyright users. -- Hilary Rosen
Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance. -- Phyllis Schlafly
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God. -- William Howard Taft
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. -- Abraham Lincoln
The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people. -- Adolf Loos
It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them. -- Ramana Maharshi
No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected. -- Benjamin Robbins Curtis
When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death. -- Tammy Bruce
Civil society must be strengthened to help raise awareness among people living with HIV, and those at risk, of their rights, and to ensure they have access to legal services and redress through the courts. -- Shereen El Feki
Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them. -- Tammy Faye Bakker
One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act in Indiana does not give anyone the right to deny services to anyone in this state. It is simply a balancing test used by our federal courts and jurisdictions across the country for more than two decades. -- Mike Pence
It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land. -- Rod Parsley
What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law. -- Kurt Vonnegut
In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices. -- Teju Cole
In 1995, Russia virtually gave Chechnya de facto statehood and independence even though, de jure, it didn't recognize Chechnya as an independent state. And I would like to emphasize strongly that Russia withdrew all of its troops, we moved the prosecutors, we moved all the police, dismantled all the courts, completely, 100 percent. -- Vladimir Putin
Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash. -- Karl Rove
Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together. -- Winona LaDuke
From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling into the rough. You do that and you're gonna have problems. -- Jerry Lewis
Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that. -- Gautam Gambhir
Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars. -- Maureen Dowd
Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life. -- Novak Djokovic
He who begs timidly courts a refusal. -- Seneca the Younger
Everyone fears and courts his own demon. -- Mason Cooley
The man who pardons easily courts injury. -- Pierre Corneille
The maxim of courts is that manner is power. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Twere sin to stain fair Venus' courts with blood -- Robert Greene
Mental health courts exist because the system has failed. -- E. Fuller Torrey
It's been sanctioned by the courts, and I accept that. -- Gary Gilmore
Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. -- Denis Leary
I agree 100% with the courts.We should open it [iPhone] up. -- Donald Trump
Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo. -- Ambrose
The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends. -- Seneca the Elder
The courts are as a stage, people love to see attractive players. -- Anna Kournikova
But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown. -- David Dinkins
The left has chosen the courts as a major battlefield over social issues. -- Rod Parsley
Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation. -- Mason Cooley
I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers. -- Kurt Loder
Donald Trump is brash and loud and courts a lot of media attention. -- Sarah Ellison
Mob rule can not be allowed to override the decisions of our courts. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it. -- Thomas Chalmers
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The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government. -- William Weld
Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done. -- Alain Robert
Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners. -- Lord Chesterfield
Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy. -- Mason Cooley
True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul. -- Emma Goldman
Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends. -- Horace
...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. -- Arthur Ashe
Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation. -- Alexander Hamilton
Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces. -- W.S. Gilbert
My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate. -- Edward Snowden
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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business. -- Washington Irving
The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts. -- Warren E. Burger
It is honor that makes commerce possible, dear brother. And the law courts, when men lack it. -- Edward Cline
Today most habeas involves the federal courts overriding state convictionswhere it used to be mostly the reverse. -- Anthony Gregory
I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.' -- Sarah Palin
So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor. -- Jeremy Rifkin
I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino. -- Richard Ingrams
Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it." -- Søren Kierkegaard
The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts. -- Robert Reich
The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena. -- Stockwell Day
The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government. -- Todd Akin
Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties. -- William S. Burroughs
The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries. -- Joni Mitchell
The courts are merely a ruse, if you will, for humanist, atheistic educators to beat up on Christians. -- Pat Robertson
We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. -- Johnny Hunt
[The courts and the media elite] are abolishing America, they are deconstructing our country ... they have dethroned our God. -- Pat Buchanan
The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion. -- Ernest Istook
Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts. -- Horace
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice. -- Abraham Lincoln
CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court. -- Floyd Abrams
Give vocational training to the manually minded, and the children's courts of the future will have less to do. -- Lewis E. Lawes
When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed. -- Stephen Johnson Field
When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed. -- Stephen Johnson Field
I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers. -- Alexander Pope
I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell. -- Andrew Jackson
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts. -- Lord Chesterfield
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts. -- Lord Chesterfield
We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them. -- Christine Pelosi
Well my question is if the federal courts don't have jurisdiction over a constitutional question then who the hell does? -- Jesse Ventura
Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance. -- Frank Herbert
One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality. -- Oliver Goldsmith
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
Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people. -- Larry Craig
The people believed that while the courts would be independent, they would defer to the political branches on policy issues. -- Sam Brownback
There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years. -- Ernest Istook
If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off. -- Charles Fried
Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise. -- Walker Percy

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