Julius Gantman Quotes

I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.

The law itself is on trial in every case as well as the cause before it.

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.

It is the merit of the common law that it decides the case first and determines the principles afterward.

The job of a justice is justice.

Law is the prophecy of what a court will do.

The purpose of a jury is to guard against the exercise of arbitrary power—to make available the commonsense judgment of the community as a hedge against the over- zealous or mistaken prosecutor and in preference to the professional or perhaps overconditioned or biased response of a judge.

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

Justice is determined by the personality of the judges.

The common law of England has been laboriously built around a mythical figure—the figure of the reasonable man.

There is not, in the whole compass of human affairs, so noble a spectacle as that which is displayed in the progress of jurisprudence; where we may contemplate the cautious and unwearied exertion of a succession of wise men, through a long course of ages, withdrawing every case, as it arises, from the dangerous power of discretion, and subjecting it to inflexible rules.

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

The administration of justice was swift and unvexed by nuance.

In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls.

Our role as judges is to interpret the law.

A judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law.

Law and justice are not always the same.

I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.

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

But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.

But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.

I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

Law never is, but is always about to be.