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The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the

The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors

Plutarch
Army, Play, Law Courts

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

Learned Hand
Believe, Law Courts, Justice

The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

Louis D. Brandeis
Men, Law Courts, Rights
Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928) See Brandeis 1

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

Louis D. Brandeis
Law Courts, Government, Libertarian Party
Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

Clarence Darrow
Revenge, Law Courts, Justice
Quoted in N.Y. Times, 19 Apr. 1936

The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution damned by God Almighty.

Jimmy Swaggart
Religious, Court Judges, Law Courts

TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental.

Jennifer Stone
Real, Law Courts, Ideas
Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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