Memorable Court Quotes

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"Truth is the foundation of justice."
Horace
"The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law."
Jeremy Bentham
"The rule of law is the most important safeguard of our freedoms."
Sandra Day O'Connor
"The law must be stable, but it cannot stand still."
Roscoe Pound
"Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society."
James Madison
"Every law is an evil, in that every law is an infraction of liberty."
Herbert Spencer
"The law is a ass – an unmitigated ass."
Charles Dickens
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"If you want peace, prepare for war. If you want justice, prepare for unjust laws."
Anonymous
"Justice requires that to law, no one must suffer more than the law demands."
Anonymous
"Laws are like sausages; it is better not to see them being made."
Otto von Bismarck
"It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive."
Earl Warren
"He who has the law on his side does not have to worry about justice."
Michael Connelly
"The law is reason free from passion."
Aristotle
"It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace."
Aristide Briand
"Where there’s a will, there’s a way."
George Herbert
"A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools."
Thomas Jefferson
"The law must be stable, but not stand still."
Roscoe Pound
"The highest law is that of the land."
William Howard Taft
"A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers."
H.L. Mencken
"The law is a living thing, and it evolves with us."
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"If you want to change the law, you have to change the world."
Senator Elizabeth Warren
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"The law does not exist to protect the weak but to protect the powerful."
Rosa Luxemburg
"Proof beyond a reasonable doubt is a constant burden that never shifts."
David Boies
"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year."
John Foster Dulles
"If the law is not enforced, there will be no law."
Justice Antonin Scalia
"The law is meant to protect us, not control us."
Allyson Schwartz
"The truth is not always what we want to hear."
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
"One can never consent to creep when one has an impulse to soar."
Helen Keller
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
Peter Drucker
"Justice is the insurance we have on our society. Delivering it is extremely expensive."
Maxine Waters
"The law is a reflection of the society from which it emanates."
Warren E. Burger
"In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls."
Lenny Bruce
"The good end happily, the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means."
Oscar Wilde
"A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than it was."
Henry Edward Manning
"A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you."
Ramsey Clark
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"The law should be like death, which spares no one."
Montesquieu
"Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The greatest tyranny is the tyranny of the majority."
William Lloyd Garrison
"A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns."
Mario Puzo
"In law, nothing is certain but the expense."
Samuel Butler
"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
Jeremy Bentham
"Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns."
Plato
"The law is the public conscience."
Thomas Hobbes
"The law cannot make a man do right, but it can keep him from doing wrong."
C. S. Lewis
"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."
Plato
"No one is above the law, and no one is below it."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"An unjust law is no law at all."
Saint Augustine
"Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Justice is truth in action."
Benjamin Disraeli
"The law is a ass, a idiot."
Charles Dickens
"The law is the most powerful weapon in the hands of the people."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"A right delayed is a right denied."
Barack Obama
"A lawyer with God on his side is a man to be feared."
Daniel Webster
"The courts are the last refuge of the oppressed."
Harriet Tubman
"The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business."
Clarence Darrow
"If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law."
Winston Churchill
"Justice consists in doing no injury to men; in giving everyone his due."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The law as we know it is a reflection of our own social and moral values."
Eleanor Holmes Norton
"A court is a place where justice is administered by men, not by angels."
Robert H. Jackson
"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
Abraham Lincoln
"Courts are places for justice, not for mercy."
Thomas Paine
"The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine."
Joseph A. J. D’Ambrosio
"Laws are not masters but servants and he rules them who obeys them."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal moral order."
Lydia Maria Francis Child
"A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch."
Cecil
"Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The court is the place where rules are laid down and the principles that govern a society are established."
Unknown
"Above all, be of single aim; have a purpose, and pursue it unflinchingly."
George Washington Carver
"Judicial procedure is often tedious, lengthy, and more complicated than it needs to be."
Unknown
"No one can be just if he is not merciful."
Pope Francis
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
William E. Gladstone
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The law is reason, free from passion."
Aristotle
"The first duty of society is justice."
Alexander Hamilton
"Justice is the constant and perpetual will to render to each his due."
Domat
"Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose, they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."
William Blackstone
"The law must be stable, but it must not stand still."
Roscoe Pound
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
Robert Frost
"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"The law is not a game, it is a serious matter."
John Marshall
"The rule of law is not a mere slogan; it is the bedrock of any democratic society."
Catherine McKinnon
"In a democracy, the law must reflect the will of the people."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"No man is above the law, and no man is below it."
Theodore Roosevelt
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
Abraham Lincoln
"The law is a living thing, a dynamic thing, and must change as the world changes."
Warren E. Burger
"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
Jonathan Swift
"Justice is the foundation of the law."
Albert Camus
"The law should be like a spider's web that protects the innocent and catches the guilty."
Justinian I
"The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"A law is valuable not because it is a law, but because there is right in it."
Henry Ward Beecher
"When the law is in the right, it is a wonderful source of peace."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Law is order, and good law is good order."
Aristotle
"Law is an imperfect instrument, but it is the best we have."
Felix Frankfurter
"To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."
Nelson Mandela
"Lawyers are the foot soldiers of our Constitution."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"The law must serve the people, not the other way around."
Abraham Lincoln
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