It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary
ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not
know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole
people.
Edmund Burke
Quotes , Source: Speech on Conciliation with America (Works, vol. II, p. 136)
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So justice while she winks at crimes,
Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Samuel Butler (1)
Quotes , Source: Hudibras (canto II, pt. II, l. 1177)
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Amongst the sons of men how few are known
Who dare be just to merit not their own.
Charles Churchill
Quotes , Source: Epistle to Hogarth (l. 1)
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Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought,
therefore, for her own sake.
[Lat., Justitia nihil exprimit praemii, nihil pretii: per se
igitur expetitur.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , Source: De Legibus (I, 18)
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Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
[Lat., Meminerimus etiam adversus infimos justitiam esse
servandam.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , Source: De Natura Deorum (III, 15)
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The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong;
then, that the public good be promoted.
[Lat., Fundamenta justitiae sunt, ut ne cui noceatur, deinde ut
communi utilitati serviatur.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , Source: De Officiis (I, 10)
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The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to
submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.
[Lat., Observantior aequi
Fit populus, nec ferre negat, cum viderit ipsum
Auctorem parere sibi.]
Claudian (Claudianus)
Quotes , Source: De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti Panegyris (CCXCVII)
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If it doen't make sense, you should find for the defense.
Johnnie Cochran
Quotes , Source: defending Sean (Puffy) Combs on gun charges
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke
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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
Raymond Chandler
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When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Norm Crosby
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
H. L. Mencken
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We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
Mark Twain
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When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!
Laurie Anderson
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