You’re innocent until proven guilty.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

We shouldn’t have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Due process should matter.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

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

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

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.

I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

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

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

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

You don’t send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like ‚shooting an unarmed child,‘ when that ‚child‘ was beating him bloody.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

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

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.