Quotes about Judiciary

The law is sic a ass - a idiot.

I don't think we should have justices appointed that decide what they want to hear. It's all about the Constitution the way it was meant to be. And those are the people that I will appoint.

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.

I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law.

It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.

A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.

We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.