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"Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"It is enough for the evil people to succeed, for the good people to do nothing"
Jose Rizal, Writer
"What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me"
Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher
"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher
"Laws undertake to punish only overt acts"
Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher
"When my journal appears, many statues must come down"
Duke of Wellington, Royalty
"How many condemnations I have witnessed, more criminal than the crime!"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent"
George Orwell, Author
"I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children"
Elizabeth I, Royalty
"Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish"
Ambrose Bierce, Journalist
"In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"On wrongs swift vengeance waits"
Alexander Pope, Poet
"I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence"
Malcolm X, Activist
"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against"
Malcolm X, Activist
"Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice"
Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician
"You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job"
Richard M. Nixon, President
"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
"Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity"
Lord Acton, Historian
"The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
"Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community"
Thomas Aquinas, Theologian
"Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community"
Thomas Aquinas, Theologian
"Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court, he ceases to be your friend"
Harry S. Truman, President
"Poverty resembles penalty for a criminal activity you didn't dedicate"
Eli Khamarov, Writer
"Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained"
Helen Keller, Author
"If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost"
Barack Obama, President
"Fidelity is the sister of justice"
Horace, Poet
"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon"
George Washington, President
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them"
Frederick Douglass, Author
"Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect"
Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist
"Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction"
Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary
"There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people"
Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician
"Where there is no property, there is no injustice"
John Locke, Philosopher
"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun"
George W. Bush, President
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary"
James Madison, President
"I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement"
Calvin Coolidge, President
"The man who does ill must suffer ill"
Aeschylus, Playwright
"Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering"
Aeschylus, Playwright
"Everyone's quick to blame the alien"
Aeschylus, Playwright
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