Robert J. Bentley Quotes

Let's create a legal system that can work.

The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice.

Enforcing the law is not an injustice.

The Dutch public has always been accustomed to being treated according to the letter of the law.

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

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

Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.

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

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

Everyone should work within the ambit of law.

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.

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

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

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

Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak.

You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.

We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.

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.

I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

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

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

Law is order, and good law is good order.

The job of a justice is justice.