You’re innocent until proven guilty.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

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

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

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.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

I’m not one of these guys who sits around saying, ‚Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that’s why he’s doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s just had a bad childhood and that’s why he’s eating people.‘ Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

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 is reason, free from passion.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints, for that would show not only disregard for the specifics of the particular case, it would display disdain for the entire judicial process.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

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

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

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

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

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.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

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.

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

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

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

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.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

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

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

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

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.

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.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay… does not represent the will of the American people. I’m embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

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.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

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

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.

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.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

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.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

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

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

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.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

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

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

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

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.