Charlie Munger Quotes

Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.

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

Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

When Donald Trump says a distinguished judge born in Indiana can't do his job because of his Mexican heritage, or he mocks a reporter with disabilities, or calls women pigs, it goes against everything we stand for.

It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters.

The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting public opinion, and in defence of private rights or public liberties; but, that they will be ready to yield themselves to the passions, and politics, and prejudices of the day.

Not that I've always agreed with what she said - far from it - but Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has been properly lauded, in my view, as a judge who approached her duties with open-mindedness and with a sensitivity that affects her decisions would have on everyday, ordinary people.

It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh

If I'm not leading by example, then I'm not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.

I have to say that the judges and our judiciary system makes better decisions than the politicians.

We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.

Dare to be the adults we want our children to be.

God wants us to be a good example to others who are observing us.

When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.

How long will it be before the cry goes up: "Let's kill all the judges"?

Good judges are always open to the possibility of changing their minds based on the next brief that they read, or the next argument that's made by an attorney who's appearing before them, or a comment that is made by a colleague during the conference on the case when the judges privately discuss the case.

Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service

I don't think it matters if there is a god or not. I've met people who believe in God that are good and that are bad. And I've met people who don't believe in God that are good and that are bad. So, just be good. I'm good. Not cos I think I'll go to heaven but because when I do something bad, I feel bad. And when I do something good, I feel good.

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.

A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial.

We have to address individual acts of corruption. This is a necessary approach. Go after these individuals.

It is no use to preach to [children] if you do not act decently yourself.