#court

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to "discover" a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#centuries #constitutional #counsel #court #discover

In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#balances #believe #checks #consideration #constitution

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#bashful #being #belonged #court #dull

I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet. ↗

— Michael Chang

#blow #court #feet #i #legs

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#court #crown #disaster #either #hatred

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#counter #courts #decisions #form #law

I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me. ↗

— Peter Tork

#beatles #courteous #friends #i #know

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#court #friend #man #put #supreme

Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#affected #charged #court #dangers #each

At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#class #court #debt #debt limit #financial