James Fitzjames Stephen Quotes

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

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me.

We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either justice or right.

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.

We can not subscribe to one law for the weak and another law for the strong; one law for us, another for our opponents.

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

An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental

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.

The law should be no respecter of persons but should treat all alike, save where dissimilarity of treatment is required by positive reasons, either of justice or of policy.

Equality is the chief groundwork of equity.

The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly.

I've come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.

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.

I don't believe anyone is above the law.

Rules are for everyone.

I don't think it's right that there's one set of rules for one individual and another set of rules and laws for another individual. That's not the way the world should work.

It's equal opportunity for all, and we don't play favourites.

No student should feel like there isn't a way to seek justice, and no student should feel that the scales are tipped against him or her.

Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

When I was a young coach I used to say, "Treat everybody alike." That's bull. Treat everybody fairly.

If we are giving judicial benefits to one part, we should give them to the other part as well.