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“If I resign any time this year, he [President Obama] could not successfully appoint anyone I would like to see in the court. ... [A]nybody who thinks that if I step down, Obama could appoint someone like me, they're misguided.”

Ifs Thinking Years Law Politics President Steps Court Like Me President Obama Misguided

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.”

Politics Court Weed Insects Commonwealth Pluck Caterpillars

Book:Richard II

Source: Richard II

“Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.”

Government House Politics Enjoy Power Blood Dog Respect Court Lap Hounds Lap Dogs

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the 14th Amendment.”

“We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.”

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.”

People Way Mean Would Be Politics Causes Common Court Tricks Ashamed Finesse

Book:The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson

Source: The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson

“We live amid falling taboos. In our crowded little hour of history we have seen how the prejudice of religion no longer can bar the way to the White House. Some of you may live to see the day when the prejudice of sex no longer places the Presidency beyond the reach of a greatly gifted American lady. Long before them, I hope you will see a woman member of the Supreme Court of the United States. In Congress and in our State Legislatures we need more women to bring their sensitive experience to the shaping of our decisions.”

“Hell is full of high court judges.”

Politics Hell Judging Court Court Judges

Author:Sting

“Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.”

Wisdom Politics Wish Economy Virtue Absolutes Court Liberalism Virtuous Coexist Absolute Power

Author:Lucan

“There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.”

People Enough Law Politics Police Court Jail

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'”