The repository contains 26 quotes in the category “Justice.”
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There is no justice among men.
Czar Nicholas II
1868 — 1918
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
Before being executed in Florida's electric chair:
Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment.
John Spenkelink
1949 — 1979
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
Rep. Larry McDonald
1935 — 1983
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
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
It won’t do to have truth and justice on his side; he must have law.
Charles Dickens
1812 — 1870
He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 — 1900
That old law about an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1929 — 1968
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato
427? — 348? B.C.
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
Lord Byron
1788 — 1824
Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.
Albert Camus
1913 — 1960
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good.
Rep. Horace Mann
1796 — 1859
Anyone who says the truth shall set you free has never been to traffic court.
All lawyers are cut from the same cloth: fleece.
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