Law And Justice Quotes - Page 2

• Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Giving, Justice

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• Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.

  John Adams

  Fall, Bad Ass, Justice

  John Adams, Robert Joseph Taylor (1983). “Papers of John Adams”

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• Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

  William Gaddis

  Law, Justice, World

  William Gaddis (2002). “The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.83, Penguin

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• The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

  Raymond Chandler

  Law, Justice, Imperfection

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.54, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Fall, Law, Justice

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• Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspirational, Law, Break Through

  A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1709) See Anacharsis 1

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• There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

  Clarence Darrow

  Revenge, Law Courts, Justice

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 19 Apr. 1936

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• It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

  Edmund Burke

  Law, Justice, Humanity

  "On Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies," 22 Mar. 1775

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• Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

  Frederick Douglass

  Ignorance, Justice, Black History

  Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1886

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• Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Law, Justice

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.98, Routledge

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• Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Law, Bad Man

  "The works of Walter Savage Landor". Edited by J. Forster,

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• Persuade your fellow citizens it's a good idea and pass a law. That's what democracy is all about. It's not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too long, imposing these demands on society.

  Antonin Scalia

  Court Judges, Law, Ideas

  "Scalia: Women Don’t Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2011.

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• In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

  Anatole France

  Peace, Anger, Sleep

  "The Red Lily". Book by Anatole France, 1894.

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• Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil of today.Evil unchecked grows, Evil tolerated poisons the whole system. And because we have tolerated our past and present evils, international affairs are poisoned and law and justice have disappeared from them.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Past, Law, Evil

  Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal”

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• When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

  Norm Crosby

  Funny, Hilarious, Smart

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• In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.

  Lenny Bruce

  Justice, Lawyer, Halls

  "The Comedy Master Turned Martyr" by Stephen Robb, news.bbc.co.uk. August 03, 2006.

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• It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Hope, Courage

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

  Ignazio Silone

  Equality, Men, Law

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• The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution damned by God Almighty.

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Religious, Court Judges, Law Courts

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• Law and justice are from time to time inevitably in conflict ... . The jury ... adjusts the general rule of law to the justice to the particular case. Thus the odium of inflexible rules of law is avoided, and popular satisfaction is preserved ... That is what jury trial does. It supplies that flexibility of legal rules which is essential to justice and popular contentment.

  John Henry Wigmore

  Law, Justice, Contentment

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• We will accomplish all of the steps .And, when we do, peace and law and justice and prosperity will prevail. Crime will go down. Border crossings will plummet. Gangs will disappear.

  Donald Trump

  Law, Justice, Borders

  Source: time.com

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• I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!

  Harold H. Greene

  Law, Skills, Justice

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• Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

  Learned Hand

  Believe, Law Courts, Justice

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• But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

  Howard Zinn

  Real, Law, Justice

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.43, Beacon Press

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• The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Law, Organization, Justice

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