| United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insualar Affairs - 1971 - 76 pages
...following inscription graces the hallway of the US Court of Claims in letters almost a foot high. I quote: It is as much the duty of government to render prompt justice against itself, in favor of its citizens, as it is to administer the same, between private individuals. (Abraham Lincoln). My clients... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1972 - 140 pages
...in Glidden Co. v. Zdanok, supra, in quoting President Lincoln's State of the Union Message in 1861: "It is as much the duty of Government to render prompt...administer the same between private individuals". 370 US at 553. In the light of the foregoing, it is urged that the decision below is patently consistent... | |
| Marion Tinsley Bennett, Wilson Cowen, Philip Nichols (Jr.) - Government publications - 1977 - 214 pages
...Claims would be hard to conceive if we continue to accept President Abraham Lincoln's premise : 119 It is as much the duty of government to render prompt...administer the same, between private individuals. In this role it has been said of the Court of Claims : "It holds and speaks a nation's conscience."120... | |
| Pedestrian facilities design - 1984 - 354 pages
...at large. Abraham Lincoln was in favor of governments' being held accountable. He said in a speech, "It is as much the duty of government to render prompt...administer the same between private individuals." Immunity to liability has not completely been eliminated. It still exists as part of the dual character... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Courts - 1989 - 1012 pages
...is the motto that is inscribed in the wall of the building housing the US Claims Court, and I quote, "It is as much the duty of government to render prompt...administer the same between private individuals." I do not see any problem in adhering to that. Senator THURMOND. I presume you have no hesitancy to... | |
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