James Blanton Quotes

It’s not what I as a judge believe is right. It is what I believe the normal man of reasonable ability and integrity believes is right.

You cannot institute any equality between right and wrong.

Justice and fairness and history are not necessarily decisive in what happens.

Justice must be seen to be done.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

Justice is truth in action.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Justice is to be found only in imagination.

The Spartan principle of "calling that which is just, equal; not that which is equal, just.

Get out of the way of Justice. She is blind.

I wish to do justice to all.

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

Justice has to be done, justice must be seen to be done

I have ever had the single aim of justice in view. No judge who is influenced by any other consideration is fit for the bench. 'Do equal and exact justice,' is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, 'Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.'

Fairness is really important to me.

I was taught that the search for truth and the search for justice are not incompatible and are, in fact, essential.

We must correct what we find objectively wrong.

We should all be on the same team when it comes to truth and justice.

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?