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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. -- Francis Bacon
Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules. They apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire. -- John Roberts
Judges don't age. Time decorates them. -- Enid Bagnold
Judges should interpret the law, not make it. -- Lamar S. Smith
Judges are appointed often through the political process -- Stephen Breyer
Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments -- Oscar Wilde
Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation. -- Stockwell Day
Judges can receive gifts as long as they report them. -- Jeffrey Toobin
Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication. -- John Mortimer
Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002. -- Paul Weyrich
Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate. -- Rand Paul
God forbid that Judges upon their oath should make resolutions to enlarge jurisdiction. -- William Cowper
Judges,lawyers an politicians have a license to steal.We don't need one. -- Carlo Gambino
Judges . . . rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should... -- Warren E. Burger
Judges in Texas swing the gavel with one hand and take money with the other. -- Craig McDonald
Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold. -- Alexander Pope
Politicians must let voters know what they think about issues before the election. Judges should not. -- Jon Kyl
Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected. -- Alan Dershowitz
Judges are required by our democratic system not to overstep their positions to become policy makers or super-legislators. -- Chuck Grassley
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. -- Francis Bacon
I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that's recognized. -- Arlen Specter
Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times. -- Warren E. Burger
The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others. -- William Blackstone
Judges isn't just about people who blow it over and over. It's a picture of God's love that never fails even when we do. -- Jennifer Rothschild
Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy. -- Mike DeWine
Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please. -- David Dudley Field II
We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own eyes. -- Michele Bachmann
Judges are not members of Congress, they're not state legislators, governors, nor presidents. Their job is not to pass laws, implement regulations, nor to make policy. -- Mike DeWine
Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people. -- Francis Bacon
Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live up to the judicial oath. -- John Roberts
A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty. -- Clarence Darrow
At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat. -- William Henry Moody
My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading. -- Hill Harper
Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments. -- Alan Young
Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse. -- John Conyers
My first two books, 'Letters to a Young Brother' and 'Letters to a Young Sister,' were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading. -- Hill Harper
Judges are appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. And it is our duty to ask questions on great issues that matter to the American people and to speak for them. -- Edward Kennedy
The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings. -- Julius Wellhausen
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture. -- Orrin Hatch
Judges have no actual power of enforcement. They don't have troops to carry out orders. They have no power of the purse. Yet our system of laws depends on lowly citizens and presidents abiding by court rulings. -- Nina Totenberg
There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals. -- Benjamin N. Cardozo
There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals. -- Benjamin N. Cardozo
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions. -- Thomas Jefferson
I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law. -- Sonia Sotomayor
We've voted in a government that's rotting at the core, Appointing Godless Judges who throw reason out the door, Too soft to place a killer in a well deserved tomb, But brave enough to kill a baby before he leaves the womb. -- Roy Moore
If I had killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But f-ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f- young girls. Juries want to f- young girls. Everyone wants to f- young girls! -- Roman Polanski
Furthermore, I think there was, in fact, a celebration of Passover in the era of the Judges in which the epic was recited in the context of the central sanctuary. That tradition was displaced by the Feast of Enthronement beginning in the Solomonic era. -- Frank Moore Cross
If you want good behavior, don't pay on a commission basis. Our judges aren't paid so much a case. We keep them pretty well isolated with a fixed salary. Judges in this whole thing have come out pretty well - there have been relatively few scandals. -- Charlie Munger
In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily. -- William Howard Taft
The more one judges, the less one loves. -- Honore de Balzac
We do not judge great art. It judges us. -- Caroline Gordon
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind. -- Noah Feldman
There's always room for improvement, but the judges are looking for big airs and stylish tricks. -- Shaun White
What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment. -- John Marshall
The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have. -- Joyce Brothers
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
The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges. -- Alcee Hastings
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing. -- Caroline Kennedy
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution. -- Charles Evans Hughes
For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character. -- Ferdinand Mount
Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors. -- Yochai Benkler
The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it. -- Patricia Ireland
You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth. -- Athol Fugard
Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell the rights, and violate the liberties of the people. Jurors, on the other hand, are exposed to none of these temptations. -- Lysander Spooner
I try to live my life like my father lives his. He always takes care of everyone else first. He won't even start eating until he's sure everyone else in the family has started eating. Another thing: My dad never judges me by whether I win or lose. -- Ben Roethlisberger
When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country. -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
One thing I know from personal experience, judges hate it when parties talk publicly about their cases. There are a lot of things about our criminal legal system that need to be changed, and this is just one of them. Prosecutors know how to play the press. Most defendants don't. -- Michael Arrington
Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced. -- George Will
Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it! -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
I was always pushed to do that much more, and in the long run that made me more of an MMA fighter. My mom always told me that if I let it go to the judges, I'd lost. There was no way I was going to win a decision, so I had to find ways to finish the fight fast. -- Ronda Rousey
Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a 'khali' is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up. -- Basmah bint Saud
Regard mistakes as teachers, not judges! -- Tae Yun Kim
your judgement judges you and defines you -- Jean-Paul Sartre
And he never judges someone else's suffering. -- Paulo Coelho
A good Judge conceives quickly, judges slowly. -- George Herbert
Hell is full of high court judges. -- Sting
One wrong move and everyone judges you . -- yel
Who judges the judge who judges wrong? -- Gail Carson Levine
No one ever judges their own self. -- James Wolk
Wise judges are we of each other! -- Cardinal Richelieu
We're all the harshest judges of ourselves. -- Susan Anton
Justice should be cheap but judges expensive. -- A. P. Herbert
When hatred judges, the verdict is just guilty. -- Toba Beta
We are often harsher judges than God himself. -- Judah Smith
Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges. -- Scott Hamilton
A man cannot speak but he judges himself -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wit has as few true judges as painting. -- William Wycherley
When we love, it is the heart that judges. -- Joseph Joubert
The Constitution is what the judges say it is. -- Charles Evans Hughes
To see the world is to judge the judges. -- Joseph Joubert
Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what? -- Wallace Stegner
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. -- Max Beerbohm
There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
God judges what we give by what we keep. -- George Muller
Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see. -- Sonia Sotomayor
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong! -- Sophocles
My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly. -- Victoria Woodhull
They who are to be judges must also be performers. -- Aristotle
Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself? -- Benjamin Franklin
There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise. -- Robert Duncan
The politics of judges is getting to be red hot. -- Lindsey Graham
I never speak ill of dead people or live judges. -- Edwin Edwards
A coward judges all he sees by what he is. -- Stephen King
[There are] judges who stretch the law...to suit reactionary attitudes. -- Michael Foot
Too many judges are fooled into thinking a smile equals style. -- Neshka Robeva
The Constitution is what the judges say it is, every time. -- Fred Rodell
Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written. -- Stephen King
All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges. -- Susan Rice
There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree. -- Josh Billings
The mind judges in order to love. The heart just loves unconditionally. -- Debasish Mridha
Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility. -- Stewart Udall
The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt. -- Antonin Scalia
Everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if... -- Nancy Lopez
We need common-sense judges who understand our rights were derived from God -- George W. Bush
God judges a tree by its fruits and not by its roots. -- Paulo Coelho
We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act. -- Abigail Adams
Robotic correctness is the last thing judges want to see or hear -- William Westney

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