Court Quotes

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions.

Judge Willis: You are offensive, sir. Smith: As a matter of fact we both are; the difference is that I am trying to be and you can’t help it.

Those people who taught Hubert Humphrey a lesson will still be enjoying the Nixon Supreme Court when Tricia and Julie begin to find silver threads among the gold and the black.

Isn’t it funny that anything the Supreme Court says is right?

Judge Willis: What do you suppose I am on the Bench for, Mr. Smith? Smith: It is not for me, Your Honor, to attempt to fathom the inscrutable workings of Providence.

Technicality, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: “Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon […]

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

The Supreme Court of the United States of America is an institution damned by God almighty.