American Judge Quotations

It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way.

And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.

I was stuck at home in bed with me and got more and more involved with the Internet. I used it to keep in contact with friends and to make sure I was up to date with everything that was going on in the world.

If you tell children they are bad, that's what they believe they are and that's probably what they will become.

A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.

And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun.

At the end of the day I'm pleased with the site I created.

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.

And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

And although I like to relax and have fun, my passion is my work.

Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.

As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.

I can remember how rude I could be at times to journalists and people phoning up for advice.

I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.

I know the law... I am it's greatest transgressor.

Back then, I could be as obnoxious as I liked and people would still come back for more, they had to, I was Benjamin Cohen, the Dot Com sensation.

How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire.

I decided that the only way there would be a future was to start to cut back.

By competent evidence, is meant such as the nature of the thing to be proved requires; and by satisfactory evidence, is meant that amount of proof, which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond any reasonable doubt.

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run.

Most of my time, energy and other resources I use to nurture my projects.

It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.

Even if someone is already in your market space, ask yourself whether you can approach it from a different angle and thereby secure your own customer base.

In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true.

If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

I prefer the new me a million times more over than the old one.

Proceeding further, to inquire whether the facts related by the Four Evangelists are proved by competent and satisfactory evidence, we are led, first, to consider on which side lies the burden of establishing the credibility of the witnesses.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

On the other hand, always aim to be the best in what you do and give 100%.

But if, on the other hand, we should be justified in rejecting it, if there testified on oath, then, supposing our rules of evidence to be sound, we may be excused if we hesitate elsewhere to give it credence.

The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

I still manage to spend around 40 hours a week at work but it is a lot more focused on what can make money as opposed to what makes me look good in the papers.

Initially, the site was favourably reviewed in a leading new media publication and the word spread.

For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.

My parents have been really supportive right from the very beginning.

The added work load of a degree has made me focus a lot more when I am in work.

The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this.

It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

When I look back at the way that I was in that documentary I cringe.

The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence.

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.

It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.

There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.

We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.

Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.

Would I want to be judged by whether or not I was popular? Wouldn't I want to be judged on what was true as opposed to what might be popular?

We developed a system of protecting human liberty such that judges and independent judges are a necessary part of that protection.

Like I said, a little of this, and a little of that. I got involved with the aviators of the 1930's. I became the family attorney for the Lindberghs.

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

If the 1st Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.

I was carried away with the fact that I, a mere 17 year old had as much experience as anyone else at building an Internet company.

It is not like I have gone crazy,I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

Later, I became the manager for Amelia Earhart, until, well, you know.

Respondent's expectation that his garden was protected from observation is unreasonable and is not an expectation that society is prepared to honor.

Well it's fairly important that everyone have a lawyer and so we have a system that you can't convict a person without a lawyer, even if he's guilty.

Those who own the country ought to govern it.

When you prevent somebody from participating in our free society and the economics of our free society, I have some real problems.

Extra hard not to die in the near future.

Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him.

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.

You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer.

There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

It was then I realised there wasn't really a site out there that catered for the Jewish community in the UK. So I thought I'd create one.

The state can't undo the harm that was done, but I feel very strongly that if there is any role for the state, it is to protect us from others.

The site really developed organically until it reached the point when I needed to find outside investment to develop it further.

Sometimes it is easy...to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.

Once you're in a system where there are contributions being made, it's certainly not the case that everybody expects something back.

They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.

There seems to be no way to quench people's thirst for online video programming.

It's almost like a trust that we are bound to preserve the institution and give it to our successors in the same good condition that we received it.

Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.

The truth of the matter was that I made myself disappear. I never liked being a Judge, so I just decided to start over. Sorry to inconvenience anyone.

At the same time, we do live in a democracy. And for that reason I think it is appropriate to have some element of public control.

I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less.

I never saw the play, although I heard it was good.

In once sense I still stand by the comments that I made last year about freedom of speech and the right of the individual to access pornography.

In every age and country, and in every stage, from the highest intellectual culture to the darkest stupidity, he bows with homage to a superior Being.

I realised the stupidity of what was going on, there was no concentration on key revenue streams, it was all about land grab and not about money.

I figured I would go into labor relations. I began to develop a labor law practice. Eventually, I focused on one primary client.

I came from the people that they're leading; I didn't come from the leadership ranks, I came from among the people I'm most concerned about.

I don't think about it too much. Too many people are concerned with what they were in Europe, before they came to the United States.

I do remember sitting in the Senate Gallery on the day the filibuster was broken. I remember feeling that I was witness to a very significant event.

I' been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.