The repository contains 26 quotes in the category “Justice.”
Showing quotes 1 through 20 in the category “Justice.” Page 1 2.
When asked by a priest to suspend a convict's death sentence:
If I don’t suspend it tonight, the man will surely be suspended tomorrow.
President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865
The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.
President George Washington
1732 — 1799
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.
President Theodore Roosevelt
1858 — 1919
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho Marx
1890 — 1977
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
1874 — 1963
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 — 1900
There is no justice among men.
Czar Nicholas II
1868 — 1918
Courtroom: A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
Lawyer: One who protects us from robbers by taking away the temptation.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
Jury: A group of twelve people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
Judge: A law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
Fine: A bribe paid by a rich man to escape the lawful penalty of his crime.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
That old law about an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1929 — 1968
Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.
Albert Camus
1913 — 1960
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
Lord Byron
1788 — 1824
Before being executed in Oklahoma's electric chair:
How about this for a headline for tomorrow’s paper? French fries.
James French
1936 — 1966
Where the rule is unjust, there are unjust people.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
1869 — 1948
Anyone who says the truth shall set you free has never been to traffic court.
All lawyers are cut from the same cloth: fleece.
Showing quotes 1 through 20 in the category “Justice.” Page 1 2.
