914 quotes by judges for you to enjoy

If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is. Sandra Day O'Connor

Life Great Women Job Made Difficult Think I Think Mine Would More Badly Stumbled Concern Still Doing

I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate. Sandra Day O'Connor

Education Become Nation Increasingly Our About Had Schools Concerned Years Lack Stopped Unfortunate Teaching Recent Recent Years

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself. Sandra Day O'Connor

Politics Constitution Fear Values Framers Embodied Find Compromise Majority Passing Were Itself Amendment Expedient Might Measure

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half. Sandra Day O'Connor

Government School Half States High High School Making Stopped Requirement

I need to retire from retirement. Sandra Day O'Connor

Retire Retirement Need

I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it. Sandra Day O'Connor

Young Rancher Knew Because Cattle Wanted Loved

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person. Sandra Day O'Connor

Family You Understanding Responsibilities Having More Make Concerns Person Just

Proceeding further, to inquire whether the facts related by the Four Evangelists are proved by competent and satisfactory evidence, we are led, first, to consider on which side lies the burden of establishing the credibility of the witnesses. Simon Greenleaf

That man is a religious being, is universally conceded, for it has been seen to be universally true. Simon Greenleaf

Man Seen Has-Been Religious True Conceded Been Being Universally

The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written; some dating it as early as the year 68, others as late as the year 98; but it is generally conceded to have been written after all the others. Simon Greenleaf

Time Year Others Late John Some Dating Generally Written Conceded Learned Gospel Been After Agreed Early

There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin. Simon Greenleaf

Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise. Simon Greenleaf

Custody Law Burden Face Party Opposing Every Otherwise Evident Marks Ancient Proper Bearing Document Genuine Coming Proving Repository Apparently

You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down. Sonia Sotomayor

Diabetes taught me discipline. Sonia Sotomayor

Me Discipline Diabetes Taught

With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that. Sonia Sotomayor

Being a justice. If you love law the way I do... you're given the job of a lifetime... you're permitted to address the most important legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people's lives. Sonia Sotomayor

Love You Justice Legal People World Law Sometimes Job Country Important Address Way Given Lifetime Most Make Make A Difference Permitted Doing Questions Difference Being The Most Important Lives

A career is something that you train for and prepare for and plan on doing for a long time. Sonia Sotomayor

Time You Long Long Time Something Doing Train Plan Prepare Career

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Sonia Sotomayor

Experience Will Gender National Differences Our Born Physiological Make Make A Difference Judging Cultural May Difference Whether Inherent Origins

I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate. Sonia Sotomayor

Experience Judge Differences Heritage Sum Sum Total Appropriate Those Willingly Must Total Resulting Attempt Supreme Supreme Court Accept Greater Court Limitations Opinions Continuously Deny Than Experiences Prejudices Aspire Who Sympathies

It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law. Sonia Sotomayor

Heart Law Cases Conclusions Compels

Quotes by Judges