Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nina Totenberg

He may be for conservatives what (Justice William) Brennan was for liberals.

Rebecca West

I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

William J. Brennan

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

Woodrow Wilson

Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.

William J. Clinton

Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.

William J. Clinton

I love the HRC. The initials are great.

Ujjwal Nikam

I am afraid that it would be a mockery of justice if the death penalty is not imposed. And therefore I pleaded that there are maximum aggravating circumstances, which supersede the mitigating circumstances. And there is not a single mitigating circumstance which speaks in favor of the accused, and therefore all the accused deserve (the) death penalty.

Ugo Betti

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

Joseph Addison

The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.

James Rubin

That is a sure-fire way to give President Milosevic another pretext to kill innocent Albanians.

Jere Reneer

They are as innocent as they were when they first walked in here.

Ed Hall

There was no intent on his part. It was just a innocent mistake.

Sidney Jones

This man is not just an innocent old preacher. The man knows perfectly well JI exists. If he says it doesn't exist, he's lying through his teeth.

Bertolt Brecht

The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.

Edwin Meese

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

Benjamin Franklin

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Nicholas Sparks

A WALK TO REMEMBER is set in the late 1950s because that was the last really innocent period in schools.

Zig Ziglar

Though I am not always responsible for what happens to me, I am responsible for how I handle what happens to me.

Cassandra Clare

We are responsible for protecting Tessa!

Oprah Winfrey

We are each responsible for our own life-no other person can be.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Along with responsible newspapers we must have responsible readers.

Terence McKenna

Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.

David Horowitz

No one is responsible under liberalism.

Barbara Tuchman

To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Hamas is responsible and Hamas should held accountable for civilian deaths.

Brian Tracy

You are fully responsible for everything you are, everything you have and everything you become.