Lysander Spooner Quotes

And let the sheriffs who have arrested them bring them before the justice without any other summons.

Can I suggest that the sheriff and the district attorney, in the lunch break, go out and read the Constitution.

A judge sometimes must release a criminal. He doesn't like it, she doesn't like it, but the law requires it. And the context of an election in which you are "soft on crime" betrays a misunderstanding of the judicial process and a misunderstanding of the Constitution.

At the end of the day, we must respect the rule of law in respective jurisdictions.

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

All lawyers are the natural enemies of the police.

Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

The prosecutor has more control over life, liberty, and reputation than any other person in America.

The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.

Indictments of any kind are serious. That being said, let's not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process in this country.

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to 'discover' a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

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

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

The Law is the Law!

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S., and that's the way it's done in Russia.

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.

An investigation in which the processes of law-making and law-evaluating are submerged entirely in exposure of individual behavior—in adjudication, of a sort, through the exposure process—is outside the constitutional pale of congressional inquiry.

Court rules do not cause crime.

Law enforcement, however, in defeating the criminal, must maintain inviolate the historic liberties of the individual.

Law enforcement does not ask an advantage in its struggle with the lawless. It asks only that the scales of justice be balanced. The cause of justice is not served when hardened criminals are allowed to go free through legal technicalities.

Courts, not mobs, must execute the penalties of the law.

In our country the law of the strong does not prevail. The strength of the law prevails.

The ancient mode of trial by jury ... ought to remain sacred and inviolable.