It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
Michelangelo

Judges are appointed often through the political process.
Stephen Breyer

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.
Alan Dershowitz

Judges don't age; time decorates them.
Enid Bagnold

Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.
Stockwell Day

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Francis Bacon

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.
Mike DeWine

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Francis Bacon

Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments.
Alan Young

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
Warren E. Burger

Judges should interpret the law, not make it.
Lamar S. Smith

Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002.
Paul Weyrich

Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
Orrin Hatch

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.
Lamar S. Smith

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
Leonard Cohen

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.
Jeff Sessions

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
Max Beerbohm

My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer.
Paula Abdul

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
Victoria Woodhull