Quotes About Justice

I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

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

Justice is too good for some people, and not good enough for the rest.

Injustice never rules forever.

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

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

The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

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.

Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce.

Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.

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

Laws are the spider's webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

That is the beauty of the Common Law, it is a maze and not a motorway.

The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.