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Quotes on Justice
By peace | March 5, 2006
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty. ~Norm Crosby
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ~Robert Frost
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Justice is incidental to law and order. ~John Edgar Hoover
Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices. ~Edgar Argo
Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the ten commandments. ~Attributed to both Bert Masterson and Earl Wilson
I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police. ~Keith Richards
There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick. ~Grover Whalen
In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls. ~Lenny Bruce
Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice. ~Charles T. Sprading, Freedom and its Fundamentals
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. ~Lord Halifax
It’s strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest. ~Author unknown, quoted in Sunshine magazine
Hunger makes a thief of any man. ~Pearl S. Buck
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. ~Edmund Burke
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. ~Frederic Bastiat, The Law
The more laws the more offenders. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
It ain’t no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don’t break any. ~Mae West
Law never made men a whit more just. ~Henry David Thoreau
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