"I hate to hear people say this..." - Quote by Mark Twain
I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.
More by Mark Twain
“Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.”
“On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.”
“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
More on Justice
“The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.”
“Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.”
“Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.”
More on Politics
“I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.”
“I am not a compromiser on fundamentals.”
“People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives.”