Jerry Jones Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

Fill the seats of justice With good men, not so absolute in goodness As to forget what human frailty is.

Thou shalt not ration justice.

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

When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.

Law and justice are not always the same.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

You pay a price when you have an objective sentencing system. That is, nothing is perfect.

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

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

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

When justice is done for symbolic reasons, then all of us are in trouble…. Symbolic justice is not what a verdict should be about.

The court that serves America should reflect America.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.

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.

He made you king to do justice and righteousness.

There is no such thing as justice—in or out of court.

A fair judicial system takes time to work.

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....