| Author |
Quotes |
| Abraham Lincoln | I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. |
| Aristotle | Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert. |
| Aristotle | The price of justice is eternal publicity. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | Justice is truth in action. |
| Bible | The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. |
| Bible | Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour. |
| Bible | Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just; And four times he who gets his fist in fust. |
| Bible | It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. |
| Charles Churchill | Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own. |
| Charles Churchill | The more laws, the less justice. |
| Clarence Darrow | There is no such thing as justice-- in or out of court. |
| Claudian | The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor. |
| Dante Alighieri | Justice does not descend from its pinnacle. |
| Edmund Burke | 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 | 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 | Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. |
| Groucho Marx | Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. |
| H L Mencken | 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. |
| Henry Waldorf Francis | A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever. |
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