Han Fei Quotes

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

Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor.

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

The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.

But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.

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

You just want to be judged against everyone fairly.

I will do everything by apply with all the legal and apply with the rule of law. And the main important thing that I have to be fairness to everyone, not just only one person.

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.

In general, we as police officers - at least the good police officers - like to look at each situation case by case and always pay close attention to the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law.

In nominating young women and men to our service academies, it must only be about who you are, not who you know.

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

Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.

Rigid and expeditious justice is the first safeguard of freedom, the basis of all ordered liberty, the vital force of progress.... Justice must not fail because the agencies of enforcement are either delinquent or inefficiently organized.

Do not favor the poor or show deference to the rich; judge your neighbor fairly.

Judges shall judge justly, according to the written law and not according to their own judgment.

Justice is incidental to law and order

A fair judicial system takes time to work.

In the criminal justice community, as a judge, being tough is not enough. You have to be fair.

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.

Enforcing the law is not an injustice.

Justice has to be done, justice must be seen to be done

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

Procedural fairness and regularity are of the indispensable essence of liberty. Severe substantive laws can be endured if they are fairly and impartially applied.

Justice must be seen to be done.