Justice And Judicial Activities

Samuel Pepys

Law

1633–1703

"Musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is."

James Fitzjames Stephen

Law

1829–1894

"Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind."

🇺🇸William J. Brennan

Law

1906–1997

"The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs."

🇫🇷Étienne de La Boétie

Literature

1530–1563

"The good seed that nature plants in us is so slight and so slippery that it cannot withstand the least harm from wrong nourishment."

🇺🇸Thurgood Marshall

Law

1908–1993

"here's no difference between a white snake and a black snake. They'll both bite."

🇺🇸Felix Frankfurter

Law

1882–1965

"If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process."

🇺🇸Ernest Howard Crosby

Social Activism

1856–1907

"If judge and jury had to hang the prisoner themselves in cold blood, there would be fewer executions; if we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians."