Memorable World Class Judges Quotes

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"Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building; it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our whole constitutional system is established; it is a principle woven into the very fabric of our Nation."
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
"The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances."
Benjamin N. Cardozo
"The judiciary's power to construe the laws is seldom questioned, yet it is the Court's duty to confine itself to the question before it."
Byron White
"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."
Thurgood Marshall
"The Constitution is not a living organism. It is a legal document that says some very important things. We should read it as it is, and not as we might like it to be."
Antonin Scalia
"The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. It is the one that casting the burden of decision on the people, not the state, respects their dignity as free thinkers and actors."
Anthony Kennedy
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"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is."
Charles Evans Hughes
"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold."
Louis Brandeis
"The future of this nation does not depend on the actions of the powerful, but on the choices of everyday people."
Sonia Sotomayor
"The law is reason free from passion."
Aristotle (often quoted by judges)
"A judge is not supposed to be partisan. A judge is supposed to be fair."
Samuel Alito
"It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is."
John Marshall
"The Court has no right to consider what is wise policy on the part of government."
Sandra Day O'Connor
"I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind."
Thomas Jefferson (often referenced in judicial discussions)
"The Constitution is a restraint upon the power of the government, not upon the people."
Fisher Ames (often quoted in constitutional law contexts)
"The duty of a judge is to try to find the applicable rule, but if no applicable rule exists, to fashion one."
Benjamin N. Cardozo (attributed)
"Fairness is what justice really is."
Potter Stewart
"If judges don't make law, who does?"
Lord Denning
"The Court's authority—possessed of neither the purse nor the sword—ultimately rests on sustained public confidence in its moral sanction."
Felix Frankfurter
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"I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating."
Sophocles (Often quoted by judges to emphasize integrity)
"Where law ends, tyranny begins."
John Locke (Often quoted by judges when discussing the rule of
"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom."
John Locke (Often quoted in judicial decisions)
"Let justice be done, though the heavens fall."
Attributed to William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (Frequently

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