9 Courthouse Quotes for You to Enjoy

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process. Thurgood Marshall

Doors Assure Proper Mere Adversary Access Does Courthouse Itself Process

In Selma, Alabama, in 1965, only 2.1 percent of blacks of voting age were registered to vote. The only place you could attempt to register was to go down to the courthouse. You had to pass a so-called literacy test. And they would tell people over and over again that they didn't or couldn't pass the literacy test. John Lewis

You Vote Age People Voting Down Tell Would Percent Blacks Only Could Attempt Had Over Pass Courthouse Test Go Were Literacy So-Called Place Again Register Registered Alabama

When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a female marshal in front of the courthouse in Miami and she's got a shotgun on her hip and it goes up on an angle. And she's good-looking. And I say, 'I've got to use her.' Elmore Leonard

Character Me Book Picture Say Marshal See Angle Something Idea Good-Looking She Female Courthouse Got Hip Up Miami Get Goes Front Shotgun Use Appeals Her

Back in East Texas, all three networks have stations in my hometown of Tyler, and for a town that small, 85,000, to have all three networks, they all have their own news programs, six and 10, and they're always looking for news. Back when I was a judge, they were constantly coming to the courthouse and asking for comments. Louie Gohmert

News Judge Three Looking Own Programs Tyler Back Stations East Constantly Small Networks Town Always Courthouse Coming Were Texas Comments Six Asking Hometown

I went downtown to the courthouse pretty late at night, and arraignment court was on. You have these prosecutors and public defenders and judges and all of these people who are there on a Friday night at half past 12, and how can you expect people to bring their judgment and their best selves to their work at that kind of time? Clare-Hope Ashitey

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The construction of a courthouse is a long-term investment in a building where important public business is done. But that does not justify extravagant expenditures. Courthouses should be dignified, durable, and functional. They should not be grandiose, monumental, and luxurious. Charles T. Canady

About five, six FBI agents walked into the courthouse and arrested me. They said I was being arrested for distribution of information related to explosives over the Internet. Sherman Austin

Me Internet Related Distribution About Over Said Courthouse Arrested Five Walked Six Being Information Agents Explosives