Andrew Thomas Quotes

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

Many countries struggle and never get to the point where people have faith that laws are executed fairly.

The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression.

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

He that buyeth Magistracy, must sell justice.

Woe unto them ... who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!

People who make off with large sums of money escape justice or get insignificant sentences, while the thief who steals a handbag … gets six years…. In the United States, Nixon quit for far less.

I shouldn't have sat on death row 30 years. All they had to do was test the gun. But when you think you are high and mighty and you're above the law, you don't have to answer to nobody, but I've got news for you.

It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

We have seen enough criminality on the part of government. It is hypocritical to make this allegation against me. They have narrowed the public sphere of influence.

We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

We have a circle of corruption and impunity that is too strong.

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

How is justice served if the victim and the accused are working together to make it all go away? Somebody please explain that to me.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.

Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.

Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.

There are reasons to doubt that our criminal justice system is fundamentally just.

A … trial in Cambodia cannot be completely impartial, because there is too much corruption.