Thomas Hobbes Quotes

A fair judicial system takes time to work.

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....

In the criminal justice community, as a judge, being tough is not enough. You have to be fair.

In Malaysia, trials have always been fair.

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.

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

We do not sit like a kadi under a tree dispensing justice according to considerations of individual expediency

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

In evaluating any given claim of misconduct, we will be ill served in the long run if we abandon the presumption of innocence and fairness, tempting though it may be. We must always remember that it is when passions are most inflamed that fairness is most in jeopardy.

I believe in the jury system.

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.

If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment.

Law is a process. If there is equality of process for everybody, then that's our definition of justice. Whether or not what is done is right or wrong, you follow the process. And so, the end result is just by definition within that alternative universe that is American law. Most people still operate within a moral universe where principles of good and bad and what is right and wrong in itself, and not just as a result of the process.

Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice.

Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.

The 'music' is not an open court and a fair trial.

It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world.

You must first of all think justly. Don’t sit in judgment over others when you don’t know the truth of the matter.

Thou shalt not ration justice.

If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

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

I have faith in the jury system.

The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.

The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.

The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.