Quotes About Justice

Trudeau: Yes, well, there are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is, go on and bleed, but it is more important to keep law and order in a society than to be worried about weak-kneed people who we don't like the looks of. Reporter: At any cost? How far would you go with that? How far would you extend that? Trudeau: Well, just watch me. . . ."

Show me the man and I'll show you the law.

No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.

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

Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.

In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.

The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

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

Law is a bottomless pit.

"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is a ass, a idiot."

Be you never so high, the law is above you.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.

The laws sometimes sleep, but never die.

Where law ends, there tyranny begins.