Quotes on Law Courts

It is impossible to pursue happiness. Nobody has ever pursued it. One has to wait for it. And it is not a right at all. No law court can force you to be happy or force happiness to be with you. No government violence is capable of making you happy. No power can make you happy.

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

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.

Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.