Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [121-140] of 715 Justice quotesJustice QuotesJustice Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity -- the law of nature, and of nations.~ Edmund Burke Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.~ William S. Burroughs Do what thy manhood bids thee do, From none but self expect applause: He noblest lives and noblest dies Who makes and keeps his self-made laws.~ Sir Richard Francis Burton I want him [Saddam Hussein]. I want -- I want justice. There is an old poster seen out west. As I recall, it said, Wanted Dead or Alive.~ George W. Bush Today the Justice Department did issue a blanket alert. It was in recognition of a general threat we received. This is not the first time the Justice Department have acted like this. I hope it is the last. But given the attitude of the evildoers, it may not be.~ George W. Bush Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain.~ Samuel Butler All bad precedents began as justifiable measures.~ Gaius Julius Caesar “Due process,” a standard that arose in our system of law and stemmed from the desire to provide rational procedure and fair play, is equally indispensable in every other kind of social or political enterprise.~ Edmond Cahn To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws ...~ John C. Calhoun A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.~ John C. Calhoun Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail.~ John C. Calhoun Today the grand jury is the total captive of the prosecutor who, if he is candid, will concede that he can indict anybody, at any time, for almost anything, before any grand jury.~ William J. Campbell How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.~ Albert Camus Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.~ Albert Camus Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.~ Albert Camus When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.~ Al Capone It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.~ Justice Benjamin Cardozo Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.~ Justice Benjamin Cardozo Of...freedom [of thought and speech] one may say that it is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.~ Justice Benjamin Cardozo Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man.~ Thomas Carlyle Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print