Top 24 Great Judges Quotes
#1. Moderation is not a compromise; moderation is a passion; the passion of great judges.
G.K. Chesterton
#2. The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.
Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin
#3. Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential to have judges take decisions which should properly be made by democratically elected politicians.
Margaret Thatcher
#4. Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#5. 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
#6. Through the feigned fury of divine emotion, the wife of the great one will be badly wronged. Judges, wishing to condemn such a doctrine, the victim will be sacrificed to the ignorant people.
Nostradamus
#7. I don't like bonuses for public services employees who do great jobs, like prosecutors or judges.
Trey Gowdy
#8. At the end of the day, if you've got the great idea, and someone judges you've got the managerial capability, you'll probably get the backing for it.
John Caudwell
#9. When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. It's not an anti-sex trip. Like, we're taking sex, which is probably another half of American entertainment, sex and violence, and we're projecting it, and we're saying this is the way everything is right now.
Alice Cooper
#12. So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.
William Shakespeare
#13. Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that would not be subject to retaliation by either the executive branch or the legislative branch because of some decision made by those judges.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#14. The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
Benjamin Cardozo
#15. I am a great admirer of most of the judges in Britain.
Theresa May
#16. To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they defend their rights ... is as great a treason as ever a man uttered.
Jonathan Mayhew
#17. Studying the rule of law won't make a great litigator. It is the act of trying cases in real courtrooms with real plaintiffs and defendants and judges and juries, week after week and year after year that develops lawyers into top trial attorneys.
Marian Deegan
#18. I'm often asked which author I am most inspired by, but I'm inspired by all authors. It takes a great deal of courage to pour your onto paper and watch silently as the world judges it loudly.
Charity Parkerson
#19. I don't think my social media obsession is dangerous. I joked.
Cambria Hebert
#20. We will kill in ourselves a world in order to build another, a higher one reaching to the heavens.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
#21. Frank Johnson was recognized as one of the great federal judges of American history, I suppose. He was a law-and-order judge. He was a classical, I think, conservative. But he believed that civil rights provided in the Constitution applied to everybody.
Jeff Sessions
#22. One must distance oneself from the idea of strict realism. It seems to me that real nature doesn't exist anymore, this idea of "the wild." This is why I love parks, and why I chose to use them in my work - they are beyond nature. I see nature as a resource.
Sergio Chejfec
#23. And I remember "normal" might never be the same again.
Ally Carter
#24. Minimalism in the service of others is a logical extension of the same ethos of selflessness.
Joshua Becker