Quotes About Fairness

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

Delay of justice is injustice.

The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes.

Render therefore to all their dues.

He who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decide justly, cannot be considered just.

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Laws, like the spider's web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free.

1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, "A free field and no favor."

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust. Let us be merciful as well as just.

The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely-by planning and setting priorities.

I'm moving down here . . . because some of you in the back might not be able to hear my talk . . . and that wouldn't be fair to those who can hear it.

It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.

Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on cake, sweet, but not nourishing.

A question which can be answered without prejudice to the government is not a fit question to ask.

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent.

A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time - To let the punishment fit the crime.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

No one should be twice punished for one crime.