Judges

Famous quotes containing the word judges:

“So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord:”
—Bible: Hebrew Judges (l. V, 31)

“If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.”
—Bible: Hebrew Samson, in Judges 14:18.

To the men who had answered his riddle, “Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.”

“The judiciary has fallen to a very low state in this country. I think your part of the country has suffered especially. The federal judges of the South are a disgrace to any country, and I’ll be damned if I put any man on the bench of whose character and ability there is the least doubt.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)