Quotes About Justice

Let a man be of what side he may in politics, — unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, — he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort

he should consider himself to be standing in the place of Adelaide's father or brother. His wife pointed out to him that were he her father or her brother he could do nothing, — that in these days let a man behave ever so badly, no means of punishing was within reach of the lady's friends.

A man was not necessarily guilty of bribery in the eye of the law because bribery had been committed, even though the bribery so committed had been sufficiently proved to deprive him of the seat which he would otherwise have enjoyed.

To give him his due, he did not know that he was a villain.

is true that one must put up with wrong, with a great deal of wrong. But no one need put up with wrong that he can remedy.

Law!" said Bunce, with all the scorn he knew how to command— "law! Did ye ever know a poor man yet was the better for law, or for a lawyer? Will Mr Finney ever be as good to you, Job, as that man has been? Will he see to you when you're sick, and comfort you when you're wretched? Will he—

And from that time to this the din of war is still going on, and they are in the thick of it. The carnage of their battles, the hatreds of their civil contests, are terrible to us when we think of them; but may it not be that the beneficient power of Heaven, which they acknowledge as we do, is thus cleansing their land from that stain of slavery, to abolish which no human power seemed to be sufficient?

it makes me feel that an honest man should not place himself where he may have to deal with such persons." "According to that the honest men are to desert their country in order that the dishonest men may have everything their own way.

CHAPTER LXIX SCROBBY'S TRIAL

All is fair in love and war; and if this is not love, it was the usual thing that stands as a counterpart for it.

How could a man fix his attention on any book, with a charge of murder against himself affirmed by the deliberate decision of a judge?

The case dragged itself on slowly, and little Anna Murray was a child of nine years old when at last the Earl was acquitted of the criminal charge which had been brought against him. During all this time he had been absent. Even had there been a wish to bring him personally into court, the law

I hate justice," said Phineas. "I know that justice would condemn me. But love and friendship know nothing of justice. The value of love is that it overlooks faults, and forgives even crimes.

Tal vez hoy nos robes la vida, pero ten en cuenta lo siguiente: ¡nosotros nos llevaremos a cambio la tuya!

anyone who chose to provide information leading to the conviction of a Catholic priest could expect a payment of £100 (about £7,500 today).

One feature of the trial – as with all other trials – was of course the fact that the jury consisted entirely of Protestants, Catholics being debarred from jury service.

THE FIRST DAY OF FREEDOM!': this was how Daniel O'Connell headed one letter on 14 April 1829, the day after Catholic Emancipation became law in Britain and Ireland.

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.

Grant Gilmore: "In Heaven there will be no law, and the lion will lie down with the lamb….In Hell there will be nothing but law, and due process will be meticulously observed.

A written constitution is needed to protect values AGAINST prevailing wisdom.

To invoke alien law when it agrees with one's own thinking, and ignore it otherwise, is not reasoned decisionmaking, but sophistry.

Antonin Scalia

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes put it: "We do not inquire what the legislature meant; we ask only what the statute means.