Marquis de Lafayette Quotes

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.

I simply apply the law fairly and equally to all our citizens.

The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.

If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

This country does not punish its political enemies. What this country ensures is that no one is above the law.

No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.

I just want to believe that, as a citizen in this country, that I have equal protection under the law and that I can have a situation assessed fairly, that people can look at it, and that a court of law can determine what the outcome is.

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

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.

The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.

The people of the FBI are sworn to protect both security and liberty. It isn't a question of conflict. We must care deeply about protecting liberty through due process of law, while also safeguarding the citizens we serve - in every investigation.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'

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

It is time for our government leaders to respect the law no less than our humblest citizen, so that we can end the double standard of justice in America.

Laws are to govern all alike—those opposed as well as those who favor them.

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

Enforcing the law is not an injustice.

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

In America, the Supreme Court and the American people believe no one is above the law.

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

No one is above the law, not even the President.