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

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

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.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

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

I am a just man.

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

On the whole, we think of our consumers – other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it’s better to have it clearer than confusing.

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.

Law is always better than war.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

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.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

More law, less justice.

Law is mind without reason.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

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.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Justice is truth in action.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

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

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

The law is reason, free from passion.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes… You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

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.

Due process should matter.

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

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

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.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

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.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

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

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

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

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.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

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

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

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.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Racism is real in this country.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

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.