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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
can be found attributed to: Herbert Spencer, Robert Frost, Michael Pritchard, John Fredericksen, humorous
-Anon.
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The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.
-Proverb
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Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
-Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton
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I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country
-Joseph Addison
Guardian, No. 99, July 4, 1713
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as Justice. Most of the other virtues are the virtues of created Beings, or accommodated to our nature as we are men. Justice is that which is practised by God himself, and to be practised in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and Omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it. The one, to discover every degree of uprightness or iniquity in thoughts, words and actions. The other, to measure out and impart suitable rewards and punishments.
As to be perfectly just is an attribute in the divine nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of a man. Such an one who has the publick administration in his hands, acts like the representative of his Maker, in recompencing the virtuous, and punishing the offender.
-Joseph Addison
Guardian, No. 99, July 4, 1713
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Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.
-Maria Corazon Aquino
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
-Hannah Arendt
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
-Aristotle
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Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
-Margaret Atwood
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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
-Francis Bacon
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The place of justice is a hallowed place.
-Francis Bacon
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If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-Francis Bacon
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The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
-Arnold Bennett
Things That Have Interested Me,
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Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. Psalms 64:1
-Bible
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For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou has tried us, as silver is tried. Psalms 66:10
-Bible
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
-Alice Stone Blackwell
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Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.
-Linda Blandford
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Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.
-Anne Dudley Bradstreet
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In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-Lenny Bruce
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Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.
-John Bunyan
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Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trial as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible of application.
-Warren Earl Burger
Frazier v. U.S., 419 F.2d 1161, 1176 (D.C. 1969)
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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
Works, vol. II, p. 136, Speech on Conciliation with America
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Books about Justice
