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

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

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.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

More law, less justice.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

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

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

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

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

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

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

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

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

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.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

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

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

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

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.