George T. Conway III Quotes

What is right is not always the same as what is legal

Justice and truth are the common ties of society

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.

A first principle of Anglo-American jurisprudence is that the ends do not justify the means.

The press will commonly reflect (or even try to create) the view that the end justifies the means. Those of us dedicated to the law must stand before these gales.

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent.

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

You don’t have enough evidence to convict them in a court of law. On the other hand, they can kill you….It’s inherently a very difficult problem. At the end of the day the United States must be true to its own values.

Protections in law should be protections in fact.

Some voices are calling on America to circle the wagons. Some are even saying that our enemies do worse, so we should respond in kind. The problem here is that this is America. This is a constitutional republic based on the rule of law and equal respect for all persons. We can’t pretend that we can bend the rules any which way. We made the rules for ourselves. We have to live by them

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity.

We take our oath to the Constitution, which is to say the rule of law. And we are duty-bound not to follow any order that is illegal or immoral. If an order is illegal or immoral, we should and would resign, because we couldn't follow it.

You have to be willing to stand up for what you believe in, and the rule of law is one of those things.

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

Seeking justice is always our goal, but we see many too willing to circumvent that.

The magic of the American experience is that we've upheld the rule of law for everybody, everybody treated equally beneath the law.

I totally reject and have rejected throughout my entire career the proposition that the end justifies the means or that a judge should decide cases based on a desire to reach a certain outcome.

I do want to make clear that I am personally committed to the integrity of the Department of Justice. Since becoming acting attorney general, I have run the department to the best of my ability, with fidelity to the law and to the Constitution.

No individual, no organization, no government is above the law.

As attorney general I see my role as defender both of press freedom and of the fair administration of justice.

I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with a deep, living, godlike hatred.

It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.

Justice is the great interest of man on earth.