If we have learned anything in the past ten years, it is that these lovely things about America were never lovely. We have been expansionist and aggressive and mean to other people from the beginning. And we've been aggressive and mean to people in this country, and we've allocated the wealth of this country in a very unjust way. We've never had justice in our courts for the poor people, for black people, for radicals. Now how can we boast that America is a very special place? It's not that special. It really isn't.
The states have authority to interpret the Constitution, enforce it, and protect the people from violations of it by the federal government In the first place, there is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution, or which gives them any greater latitude in this respect than may be claimed by the courts of every State.
The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.
Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the courts to impose their views.
Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.
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.
Now, tell me how you're going to teach the history of Jefferson, and cut out all those quotes and cut out all these facts, and cut out the key line of the Declaration of Independence: We are endowed by our Creator. I mean you have to have a conscious deliberate censorship of America, which is what the left and the courts and the classrooms has had for 40 years.
I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.
There is nothing like playing at Wimbledon; you can feel the footprints of the legends of the game-men and women-that have graced those courts.
I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't. '
When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.
The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.
But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.
I cannot interpret the constitution. Only the constitutional courts can interpret the constitution.
The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.
My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.
The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation, familiar with the working of the courts half a century after, find it difficult to believe that such abuses as are plainly described by the legislation of that year, should really have existed in the middle of the nineteenth century.
. . . I spent many, many hours in. . . libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.