Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [561-580] of 715 Justice quotesJustice QuotesJustice Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes [N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.~ Charley Reese The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.~ William H. Rehnquist The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner.~ Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary Economic necessity cannot justify a disregard of cardinal constitutional guarantee.~ Riley v. Carter One of the greatest problems that we as a free people face today is that for the past 100 years trial judges in the U.S. have routinely misinformed jurors that they were bound to accept the judge’s opinion of what the law is; which law to apply; and whether or not they had to find a defendant guilty. In so doing these judges have welded shut this all important safety valve, which our Founders so wisely provided our society -- and the result has been an explosive one.~ Mike Robbins I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers; when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their names.~ Will Rogers There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness.~ Will Rogers 'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.~ Theodore Roosevelt No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.~ Isaac Rosenfeld Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws.~ Mayer Amschel Rothschild Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas.~ Andrei Sakharov To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.~ George Santayana Wherever a Knave is not punished, an honest Man is laugh'd at.~ George Savile We know of no other enumerated constitutional right whose core protection has been subjected to a freestanding ‘interest-balancing’ approach. The very enumeration of the right takes out of the hands of government -- even the Third Branch of Government -- the power to decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insisting upon. A constitutional guarantee subject to future judges’ assessments of its usefulness is no constitutional guarantee at all. Constitutional rights are enshrined with the scope they were understood to have when the people adopted them, whether or not future legislatures or (yes) even future judges think that scope too broad... Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.~ Justice Antonin Scalia The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over time, to be persuaded that what they took for granted is not so, and to change their laws accordingly.~ Justice Antonin Scalia There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.~ Justice Antonin Scalia The Declaration of Independence, however, is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution's refusal to "deny or disparage" other rights is far removed from affirming any one of them, and even farther removed from authorizing judges to identify what they might be, and to enforce the judges' list against laws duly enacted by the people. ~ Justice Antonin Scalia Americans find it intolerable that one constitutional right should have to be surrendered in order to assert another. America is the land of the free and home of the brave -- we don't need a Patriot Act, because we are already patriots. We know freedom means responsibility, but I am not sure Congress and its domestic enforcement agencies do. More often than not, new security measures enacted by the government have resulted in more violations of the citizenry than terrorists have ever done. The terrorists want us to be afraid -- well, we are not afraid. Stop wasting dollars on this program -- it is not good for America. To give up essential liberty for a little security provides neither. The right to be left alone from government intrusion is the beginning of all freedoms.~ Eric Schaub Some mistakes cannot be redeemed but by forgiveness.~ Eric Schaub A juror who is forced by the judge’s instructions to convict a defendant whose conduct he applauds or at the least feels is justifiable, will lose respect for the legal system. . . . A juror compelled to decide against his own judgment will rebel at the system that made him a traitor to himself.~ Alan W. Scheflin Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print