Memorable Judge Quotes

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"Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building; it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society."
Thurgood Marshall
"The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
William E. Gladstone
"It is not enough to do justice; justice must be seen to be done."
Lord Hewart
"The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide an answer to every question, but it is an instrument which embodies certain moral principles and provides a framework within which society can function."
Rose Bird
"I hate injustice, I despise it; I will not tolerate it."
Clarence Darrow
"The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been explored."
Sandra Day O'Connor
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"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."
Thurgood Marshall
"The duty of a judge is to try to find out what the intention of the parties may be."
Frederick Pollock
"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"The law is reason free from passion."
Aristotle
"Justice means everyone gets what they deserve. And when you are faced with a moral choice, choose justice."
Rick Riordan
"Let justice be done though the heavens fall."
attributed to both John Adams and William Murray, 1st Earl of
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education."
Thomas Jefferson
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe."
Edmund Burke
"Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong. but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong."
Theodore Roosevelt
"The law has no claim to human respect, except so far as it coincides with the law of justice."
William Lloyd Garrison
"I have always thought that the important question is not 'What is the law?' but 'What is justice?'"
Rosa Luxemburg
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
Thomas Jefferson
"Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the right to religious freedom."
Jimmy Carter
"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom."
John Locke
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"The good of the people is the supreme law."
Cicero
"If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice."
Learned Hand
"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."
Mahatma Gandhi
"In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously."
Justice Louis Brandeis
"Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society."
Thurgood Marshall
"Let the punishment fit the crime."
W. S. Gilbert
"The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide an answer for all the difficult questions of life."
Potter Stewart
"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is."
Charles Evans Hughes
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
Louis Brandeis
"Fairness is not a concept. It's a practice."
Antonin Scalia
"If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold."
Louis Brandeis
"The duty of a judge is to try to find the truth."
John Mortimer
"Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render everyone his due."
Justinian I
"The principle of law is clear: Thou shalt not lie; and whoever persists in lying, must abide by the consequences."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"The good of the people is the greatest law."
Cicero
"No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned, disseized, outlawed, banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will we proceed against or prosecute him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers and by the law of the land."
Magna Carta
"The law should be a shield for the weak and a bridle for the strong."
Joseph Joubert
"I hate the law, it is injustice glorified and organized."
Benjamin Tucker
"Whenever law ends, tyranny begins."
John Locke
"Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law."
Oliver Goldsmith

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