Francis Bacon Quotes

For those of you who pray, I ask that you pray that I will always judge with wisdom and integrity as a faithful servant of the law.

If You are a magistrate of standing, commissioned to appease the many, remove stupidity from the record. When You speak, do not lean to one side, beware lest one complain.

The Judge should be quick of perception; firm of purpose, clear in judgment, lenient in the infliction of penalties; assiduous in the practice of mercy; expeditious in the vindication of the innocent: clement in his treatment of criminals; careful of the rights of the stranger; gentle toward his countrymen. He should be no respecter of (important) persons, and should avoid all appearance of partiality.

I just try to do justice to the scripts that are written.

I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Standing as a witness in all things means all things - big things, little things, in all conversations, in jokes, in games played and books read and music listened to, in causes supported, in service rendered, in clothes worn, in friends made.

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older.

Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who is sensitive to right and wrong. But I would bet that children would tattle even if they could do so only anonymously. They would do it just to have justice done.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.

Miss Marple believes in justice and has very high standards. There is nothing you could say or do that would shock her.

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.

Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

The integrity of the game is everything.