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"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution."
"Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?"
"Only God can judge me."
"The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back."
"When you judge someone on their appearance or first words, you miss the opportunity to understand another human being."
"Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken."
"We are often harsher judges than God himself."
"The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice. I have no fear of constitutional amendments properly adopted, but I do fear the rewriting of the Constitution by judges under the guise of interpretation."
"We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes."
"How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me."
"I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances."
"Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace."
"I have to say that the judges and our judiciary system makes better decisions than the politicians."
"Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves."
"Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man."
"If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began."
"To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave."
"Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right."
"No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him."
"Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion."
