Legal Justice Quotes

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

The wheels of justice sometimes turn slowly, but happily they turn.

Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.

People are innocent until they are proven guilty, and we will make sure that stays the case.

Only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom; and in the end superior ability has its way. Utopias of equality are biologically doomed, and the best that the amiable philosopher can hope for is an approximate equality of legal justice and educational opportunity.

Why do we love this trial by jury? Because it prevents the hand of oppression from cutting you off.

Decisions on a matter as serious as charging an individual with a crime cannot be decided on anything less than complete examination of all available evidence. Anything less is not justice.

The purpose of the law is to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahomedan, the Hindoo, and Infidel of every denomination.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

It must be a judge - never a politician - who decides whether someone is to be locked up.

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

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

If somebody gets injured, they ought to have their day in court.

For the common man the justice meted out in the lower courts is much more important than that meted out in the Supreme Court.

After all, clemency is by nature outside the rule of law. When conferred upon those already convicted of crimes, it unravels the decision of citizen-jurors who found guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

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.

Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice.

I believe in the jury system.

Trial by jury, the best of all safeguards for the person, the property, and the fame of every individual.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

The execution of a person who can show that he is innocent comes perilously close to simple murder.

And let no one apply to the king in any suit, unless he at home may not be worthy of law, or cannot obtain law.

If a law doesn’t produce a just result, then what good is it? …. If you don’t have a just result, then the law doesn’t matter.

You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.