Justice Quotes

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

Thomas Jefferson

He maintained that the case was lost or won by the time the final juror had been sworn in; his summation was set in his mind before the first witness was called. It was all in the orchestration, he claimed: in knowing how and where to pitch each and every particular argument; who to intimidate; who to trust, who to flatter and court; who to challenge; when to underplay and exactly when to let out all the stops.

Dorothy Uhnak

Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you again what you are to presume. I am the judge. I am telling you that. Presume he is innocent. When you sit there, I want you to look and say to yourself, There sits an innocent man.

Scott L. Turow

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.

Lord Mansfield

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Vachel Lindsay

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

Simone Weil

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

Alphonse Karr

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Raymond Chandler

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

Mark Twain

A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.

Henry Waldorf Francis

Justice is incidental to law and order.

J. Edgar Hoover

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

H. L. Mencken

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.can be found attributed to: Herbert Spencer, Robert Frost, Michael Pritchard, John Fredericksen, humorous

Anon.

There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.

Clarence Darrow

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Norm Crosby

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Edmund Burke

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

Francis Bacon

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.

Proverb

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

Socrates