Sam Brownback Quotes

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.

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

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

I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.

Enforcing the law is not an injustice.

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

We will always obey the law. We will follow the rule of law.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

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

Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak.

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 couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system.

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

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

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

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.

I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.

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

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

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.

Justice is incidental to law and order

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

A fixed rule may give rise to occasional deviations from justice; but these amount to nothing more than the price which every member of the community may be called upon to pay for the advantage of an enlightened code. No laws can be framed sufficiently comprehensive to embrace the infinite varieties of human action …

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