Impartial Justice Quotes

• The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Justice, Inalienable Rights

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.574

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• Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Intelligent, Should Have, Justice

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• I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.

  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

  Integrity, Justice, Independence

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• The only relevant side is that of the law and the Constitution. We do great injury to the integrity of the court system when we start speaking of sides and stop devoting ourselves to the pursuit of impartial justice.

  Jon Kyl

  Integrity, Law, Justice

  Jon Kyl's opening statements at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on judge Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Justice, Done, May

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.132, Ravenio Books

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• I have never stuck up for any criminal. I have merely asked for the orderly administration of an impartial justice...Due legal process is my own safeguard against being convicted unjustly. To my mind, that's government. That's law and order.

  Erle Stanley Gardner

  Government, Order, Law

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• Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend, and when thy impartial justice concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and entertain him wisely; impart thy secrets boldly, and mingle thy thoughts with his: he is thy very self; and use him so; if thou firmly think him faithful, thou makest him so.

  Francis Quarles

  Friends, Thinking, Self

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