Justice Administration Quotes

The responsibility of the Department of Justice, when it comes to law enforcement, is to determine whether crimes have been committed and to prosecute those crimes under the principles of federal prosecution.

In the administration of justice all proceedings shall be public and oral to the widest possible extent.

The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it

… the magistrate should know what law he is to administer, that the subject should know under what law he is to live.

There is no good reason why police, or gaols, or the administration of justice, should be differently managed in one part of the kingdom and in another.

What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not to administer charity; not to make roads and railways; but simply to defend the natural rights of man -- to protect person and property -- to prevent the aggressions of the powerful upon the weak -- in a word, to administer justice. This is the natural, the original, office of a government. It was not intended to do less: it ought not to be allowed to do more.

The administration of justice was swift and unvexed by nuance.

If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

I ran for attorney general to be attorney general.

Remember the example I have given you of respectful submission to the administration of justice.

The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.

There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.

Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either of them, are regulated by no certain laws, and are subject to no certain principles, and are held by no certain tenure, and are redressed, when violated, by no certain remedies, society fails of all its value; and men may as well return to a state of savage and barbarous independence.

Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good Government, I have considered the first arrangement of the Judicial department as essential to the happiness of our Country, and to the stability of its political system.

As in the days of Edward I, the citizenry may be called upon to enforce the justice of the state, not faintly and with lagging steps but honestly and bravely and with whatever implements and facilities are convenient and at hand.

Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.

It is very important to know the law, but it is more important to know the judge

There be six chosen besides the Governor, which being chosen and sworn according to an Oath recorded for that purpose, shall have the power to administer justice according to the Laws here established, and for want thereof, according to the Rule of the Word of God.

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

I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.

The laws you have already passed for the establishment of a judiciary system have opened the doors of justice to all descriptions of persons. You will consider in your wisdom whether improvements in that system may yet be made, and particularly whether a uniform process of execution on sentences issuing from the Federal courts be not desirable through all the States.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.