Andrew Jackson Quotes

Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here.

If you treat defendants by the same rules of courtesy as everyone else – give them fundamental due process, treat them with dignity, you'll get it back.

There is no good reason why police, or gaols, or the administration of justice, should be differently managed in one part of the kingdom and in another.

And let the sheriffs who have arrested them bring them before the justice without any other summons.

The administration of justice was swift and unvexed by nuance.

When you enforce the laws of the state, you don’t get to pick and choose.

… due process of law is not for the sole benefit of an accused. It is the best insurance for the Government itself against those blunders which leave lasting stains on a system of justice but which are bound to occur on ex parte consideration

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

At the end of the day, we must respect the rule of law in respective jurisdictions.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.

The Law is the Law!

I know a lot of law officers, and every single one of them faces a moment - usually after about three hours on the job - when they realise that there's no connection between law and justice. The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.

We have made finality more important than fairness. We shield even clear violations of people's rights if objections aren't raised at the right time in the right way.

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

Ye must hear them and obey their orders: it is on them to be just and good, and on you to be obedient and submissive.

I well understand that the role of Attorney General is to enforce the law as it is, not as I would have it.

Whate'er is best administered is best," may truly be said of a juridical system, and the due distribution of justice depends more upon the rules by which suits are to be conducted, than on the perfection of the code by which rights are defined.

The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

In the administration of justice all proceedings shall be public and oral to the widest possible extent.

Human rights and due process of law transcend all boundaries.

Every person within this jurisdiction, whether inhabitant or foreigner, shall enjoy the same justice and law that is general for the plantation, which we constitute and execute one toward another without partiality or delay.

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

A fair judicial system takes time to work.

In our country the law of the strong does not prevail. The strength of the law prevails.