Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.

Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell the rights, and violate the liberties of the people. Jurors, on the other hand, are exposed to none of these temptations.

Better be wrong with the many than right with the few.

As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from the bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution.

The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.

The judiciary must be independent, impartial and autonomous to impart justice to the people and establish rule of law in the society.

The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges

If the country comes to believe that judges are politicians in robes no end of difficulty will come from that.

That's what you want in a judge—someone who can take the heat after following his or her own conscience.

Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.

Trial by television is ... foreign to our system.

It's important not to get into the business of characterizing judges based on one decision they make

When it is left entirely to a judge to decide whether he should give place to another he becomes a judge in his case....

If a judge does his job right, you [the observer] will never know how he personally feels about the policies he may have to rule on.

If a majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure.

In all legislative assemblies, the greater the number composing them may be, the fewer will be the men who will in fact direct their proceedings.

A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.

If any one should file a complaint against another before a judge, and the latter should refuse to hear him, or deny him the use of his seal, or, under different pretexts, should delay the trial of his cause, not permitting it to be heard, through favor to a client or a friend, and the plaintiff can prove this by witnesses, the judge shall give to him to whom he has refused a hearing, as compensation for his trouble, a sum equal to that which the plaintiff would have received from his adversary by due course of law

If it can be thought that a Supreme Court Justice can be bought so cheap then the nation is really in trouble.

It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.

While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.

A judge who likes every opinion he reaches is a bad judge.

As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may indeed injure them in fame or in fortune; but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law.

There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of few.

The problem is not that the Supreme Court is just conservative, the problem is that it is corrupt.