Legal System Quotes

"Wheels of justice grind slow but grind fine." "The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and to take their trial in court" "But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court" "The law is reason, free from passion" "The more laws, the less justice" "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." "The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law" "I believe that in the future the rule of law will be replaced by the rule of algorithms" "We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws" "Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect" "It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law" "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music." "Justice must always question itself just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions" "In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so" "It is essential to the happiness of a nation that it should have an efficient and dignified system of justice." "There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people" "The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced" "The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not commit adultery, and Thou shalt not lie in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment."