Cheryl Mills Quotes

The law itself is on trial in every case as well as the cause before it.

Enforcing the law is not an injustice.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

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

Freedom depends upon something. The rule of law.

China has not established the rule of law and thus there is no justice.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason....

I'm a big fan of the rule of law.

We are a country based on the rule of law.

We all want and need the rule of law to be upheld.

The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly.

But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.

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.

When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.

I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.

Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.

Law enforcement does not ask an advantage in its struggle with the lawless. It asks only that the scales of justice be balanced. The cause of justice is not served when hardened criminals are allowed to go free through legal technicalities.

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

Courts, not mobs, must execute the penalties of the law.

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

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

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.