Will Rogers Quotes

Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.

Often, we take stability - peace in terms of security and economic activity - to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar of rule of law and respect for human rights, because no country can long remain prosperous without that third pillar.

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

Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

Justice is merely incidental to law and order. Law and order is what covers the whole picture. Justice is part of it, but it can't be separated as a single thing.

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

The rule of law doesn't mean the police are in charge, but that we all answer to the same laws.

Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

We have introduced a rule of law. That never existed for centuries in this country [South Africa], especially under the apartheid regime, when the law was reduced into disrepute.

Our courts provide a neutral forum for the adjudication of disputes under the law, not based on economic or political power, on race, on sex or any other personal characteristics.

It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.

A just system must generate its own support.

The rule of law should be respected so that the basic structure of our democracy is maintained and further strengthened.

The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against external assault, but it remains the most civilized and least burdensome conception of a state yet to be devised.

The criminal law is no use to decent people.

Justice is that system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes the group strong and progressive rather than weak and retrogressive whereas injustice is a system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes a nation weak and retrogressive rather than strong and progressive.

The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law.

There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance of the regular forms by which the guilt or innocence of accused persons is determined.

The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government, I have considered the first arrangement of the judicial department as essential to the happiness of the country, and to the stability of its political system.

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

I don't think any country can survive as a prosperous and dignified country unless there is rule of law.

Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.