Eric Schneiderman Quotes

The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

We contend that in all laws made, or to be made, every person shall be bound alike—neither should any tenure, estate, charter, degree, birth or place, confer any exemption from the ordinary course of legal proceedings and responsibilities whereunto others are subjected.

The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the rich, the powerful, the well-connected, and the fellow with pull thinks he can get.

The spirit, the intent, the purpose of our Constitution is to secure equal and exact justice for all men.

It is time for our government leaders to respect the law no less than our humblest citizen, so that we can end the double standard of justice in America.

Protections in law should be protections in fact.

Laws are to govern all alike—those opposed as well as those who favor them.

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.

The law should be no respecter of persons but should treat all alike, save where dissimilarity of treatment is required by positive reasons, either of justice or of policy.

And Justice for Some

All men are created equal. Some, it appears, are created a little more equal than others.

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

No one can be immune from our laws; everyone must be held to account.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

I'm not above the law. No one is. But we don't want to live in a society where Lady Justice has one eye open and winks at her friends and casts the evil eye at her adversaries. When will it stop?

That is the definition of equal justice under law: everyone gets a fair shot, everyone pays their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.

At the end of the day, the law is the same for the Prime Minister or a common man of India.

I simply apply the law fairly and equally to all our citizens.

We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in ignorance of the identity of the claimants and applied equally to all. Then it is a possession not only of the claimants but of the society, which may now base its actions upon a reasonable assumption of the law?s treatment.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.