Quotes About Justice

the prosecution's case was circumstantial and they had no forensics

William Blackstone stated, 'It is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongfully convicted.

than that one innocent suffer. —SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked.   Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

People are forgiving, Mr. Coe, but they want accountability.

Reichert, David, Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer

The rich get richer and the poor go to prison.

It is not a system without faults, but as my fellow jurist William Blackstone stated, 'It is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongfully convicted.

Robert Dugoni

It is not a system without faults, but as my fellow jurist William Blackstone stated, 'It is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongfully convicted.' "Mr.

Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. —SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, Commentaries on the Laws of England

She believed in a just return for every effort.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

Once the sword was drawn there was no turning back; for blood called for blood, and vengeance followed swift on the heels of atrocity.

Solomon Kane stood forth alone, grim man of a somber race: "Worthy of death he well may be, but the court ye held was a mockery, "Ye hid your spite in a travesty where Justice hid her face. "More of the man had ye been, on deck your sword to cleanly draw "Inforthright fury from its sheath, and openly cleave him to the teeth -- "Rather than slink and hide beneath a hollow word of Law.

Gods black and white, dark and light! He shook his clenched fists above his head in the black gust of his passion. That I should stand by and see a man of mine butchered on a Roman cross—without justice and with no more trial than that farce! Black gods of R'lyeh, even you would I invoke to the ruin and destruction of those butchers! I swear by the Nameless Ones, men shall die howling for that deed, and Rome shall cry out as a woman in the dark who treads upon an adder!

Don't get mad, get even.

Each time someone 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.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

I did not lie awake at night worrying about the problems of Negroes.

Our goal is not the victory of might but the vindication of right—not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this Hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God

The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.

Dominance. Control. These things the unjust seek most of all. And so it is the duty of the just to defy dominance and to challenge control.

we are saved by Christ alone who raises us from the dead - from the absolution of our death. We come before him at the judgement with no handwriting whatsoever against us. It's simply cheating to say you believe that and then renege on it by postulating some list of extra-rotten crimes for which Christ has to send you to hell. He, the universal Redeemer, is the only judge; as far as he's concerned, the only mandatory sentence is to life and life abundant.