Learned Hand Quotes

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

If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

Law and justice are not always the same.

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

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. Fiat justitia et ruant coeli.

A system that will take life must first give justice.

As to the long time spent on lawsuits, that is due to concern for justice, that judges may not fail in passing correct judgments, by having to give sentence offhand; it is better that they should reflect, and conclude the case more tardily, than that by judging in a hurry they should both injure man and transgress against the Deity, the institutor of justice....

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

But I wound like people to think I was an honest judge and a good judge. And I always tried the reach the best result in every case.

I will not vote for - and no senator should vote for - anyone who will not render justice impartially.

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

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.

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

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

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

Justice is that virtue that gives every man his due.

There is one voice which is not heard in the crackling of the fire or in the roaring of the whirlwind or the storm, but which will and must be heard when they have passed away—the still small voice of justice.

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

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.