Tribunal Quotes

• For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

  

  Abe Fortas
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Justice

• An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Sentence

• I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic. Who knows but men will reduce me from the profession of a philosopher to that of historian of the Inquisition!

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Philosopher
  • Heretic
  • Tribunal

• [I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their Government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Government
  • Policy

• I'd be pretty surprised now if anyone had any cause to go to the courts. I think the AFL have worked the tribunal to the stage where it almost becomes court-proof.

  

  Eddie McGuire
  • Surprised
  • Courts
  • Tribunal

• You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Conscience
  • Opinions
  • Tribunal

• A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Opinion
  • Conscience
  • Ghost