David Gauke Quotes

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'

Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

The government, under my leadership, will act to implement the rule of law and to maintain the independence of the judicial system, which is one of the pillars of maintaining a democratic system.

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.

I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised.

The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.

Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.

Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.

My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If we do not have a system of justice that people believe in, the system of democracy will fail.

A fair judicial system takes time to work.

The day must come when the rule of law replaces emergency decrees an when the independent judiciary replace arbitrary justice.

Ultimately, the best guarantor of the rule of law is not the state and the branches which comprise it but the recognition by people of its value and their willingness to fight for, and uphold it.

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

If everyone on the Court always voted for the prosecution against the defendant, for the corporation against the plaintiffs, and for the government against the condemned, a vital spark of American democracy would be extinguished.

There is no, and cannot be, any situation in which we don't respect the law and the judiciary. It is unacceptable to attack the courts; criticism is allowed, but attacks are not. It shakes the basis of our democracy.

All I say is that I totally believe in the judiciary and in the Indian justice system.

It's unfortunate that the U.K. and Europe don't have the kind of culture which esteems legal protections enforced by the courts in the same way as, for example, the U.S. does.

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

Justice, not the majority, should rule.

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.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.