Edgar Quotes

You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.

I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.

We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either justice or right.

Whate'er is best administered is best," may truly be said of a juridical system, and the due distribution of justice depends more upon the rules by which suits are to be conducted, than on the perfection of the code by which rights are defined.

A fixed rule may give rise to occasional deviations from justice; but these amount to nothing more than the price which every member of the community may be called upon to pay for the advantage of an enlightened code. No laws can be framed sufficiently comprehensive to embrace the infinite varieties of human action …

A bedrock principle of our justice system is ensuring a fair day in court, something that is especially important for children who cannot advocate for themselves.

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.

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

Delay in justice is injustice.

More law, less justice.

You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

In the dispensation of justice, no distinction is to be admitted, whether between the man of wealth or the poor man, the master or the slave, the European or the Hottentot.

We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth—one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.

If somebody gets injured, they ought to have their day in court.

Protections in law should be protections in fact.

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

To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay, right or justice.

[The Utopians] have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

Where there is a right, there is a remedy. Ubu jus, ibi remedium.

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

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape

A good law is one that holds, whether you recognize it or not; a bad law is one that cannot, however much you ordain it.

If a law doesn’t produce a just result, then what good is it? …. If you don’t have a just result, then the law doesn’t matter.

While service in the Department of Justice is itself one of the highest forms of public service, the Department further strides to increase access to justice for all and to strengthen our communities.

Access to our civil courts has been severely restricted by the combination of: the removal of legal aid from some cases based on their type, not their merit; a high financial threshold for the receipt of legal aid in other cases; and a failure to deliver a safety net for vulnerable individuals by the exceptional funding arrangements.