Ted Kennedy Quotes

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

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.

Equal justice under the law, even if it's your mother. That was a point of admiration in our household. It was drilled into me.

If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.

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

The court that serves America should reflect America.

Every person within this jurisdiction, whether inhabitant or foreigner, shall enjoy the same justice and law that is general for the plantation, which we constitute and execute one toward another without partiality or delay.

Enforcing the law is not an injustice.

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

The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly.

That is the definition of equal justice under law: everyone gets a fair shot, everyone pays their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.

All of us in America want there to be fairness when it comes to justice.

Law never made men a whit more just.

There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court.

Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists...it is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status.

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.

All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other, and that each man shall be given the first chance to show the stuff that is in him.

Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.

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.

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

Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

The law is agnostic about truth.

Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.

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