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'Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.'
-Sir John Mortimer
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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
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I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
-Oliver North
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis
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The more laws, the less justice.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
-Alexander Pope
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
-Dan Rather
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We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!
-Ronald Reagan
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To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.
-Thomas Brackett Reed
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People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
-Will Rogers
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Every story has three sides. Yours, mine and the facts.
-Foster M. Russell
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The most important thing in their lives was to have a lawsuit going. It was not a question of winning or losing it, and indeed it was vital to do neither, for otherwise the suit would be over and done with. A lawsuit was part of the personality, if not the only visible sign of it, to such an extent that there was often no real animosity between the litigants, because they both needed each other.
-Salvatore Satta
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Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.
-Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.
-Charles Monroe Schulz
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may have in the sworn twelve a thief or two guiltier than him they try.
-William Shakespeare
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Time is the justice that examines all offenders. As You Like It
-William Shakespeare
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Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
-Dame Edith Sitwell
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Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
-Socrates
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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
-Robert Southey
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
-Herbert Spencer
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Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
-C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
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The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
-C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
-Gloria Steinem
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Come, agree, the law's costly.
-Jonathan Swift
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Books about Justice
