Richard Myers Quotes

The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice.

As to the long time spent on lawsuits, that is due to concern for justice, that judges may not fail in passing correct judgments, by having to give sentence offhand; it is better that they should reflect, and conclude the case more tardily, than that by judging in a hurry they should both injure man and transgress against the Deity, the institutor of justice....

The administration of justice was swift and unvexed by nuance.

The wheels of justice sometimes turn slowly, but happily they turn.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

In Malaysia, trials have always been fair.

I just want to believe that, as a citizen in this country, that I have equal protection under the law and that I can have a situation assessed fairly, that people can look at it, and that a court of law can determine what the outcome is.

Every man may think his own cause just till it be heard and judged.

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.

The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

More law, less justice.

We have made finality more important than fairness. We shield even clear violations of people's rights if objections aren't raised at the right time in the right way.

Our criminal justice system was designed to be fair and is the fairest system known to man.

Such a trial is not only unlawful but is a gross blunder in policy. It denies the great, fundamental principle, that ours is a government of Law, and that the law is strong enough to rule the people wisely and well.

We're going to have a Justice Department that understands what the word justice means.

Rigid and expeditious justice is the first safeguard of freedom, the basis of all ordered liberty, the vital force of progress.... Justice must not fail because the agencies of enforcement are either delinquent or inefficiently organized.

Justice in this country is an insurance policy. It’s not something that we’re supposed to get sometimes.

Every person within this jurisdiction, whether inhabitant or foreigner, shall enjoy the same justice and law that is general for the plantation, which we constitute and execute one toward another without partiality or delay.

If the parties will at my hands call for justice, then, all ... stood on the one side, and the Devil on the other, his cause being good, the Devil should have the right.