Felice Picano Quotes

Let's create a legal system that can work.

Sure, our legal system has its flaws, but it is the best legal system in the world.

Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

China has not established the rule of law and thus there is no justice.

God bless the U.S. court system.

The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly.

But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.

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.

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.

When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.

Preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law.

The job of a justice is justice.

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

We cannot say that we love the rule of law and reject arguments that appeal to the rule of law as technicalities and hair splitting.

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

The Dutch public has always been accustomed to being treated according to the letter of the law.

The rule of law is crucial to a civilized society - so we should go out of our way to uphold and strengthen it to the extent possible.

In Malaysia, trials have always been fair.

I am a stalwart supporter of the British judiciary who are the best in the world.

I'm a big fan of the rule of law.

Because, when it comes to restoring the rule of law, I can't change my mind and I won't change the subject.