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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
-Jonathan Swift
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He who spares the bad injures the good.
-Publilius Syrus
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They do injury to the good who spares the bad.
-Publilius Syrus
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How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
-Terence
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To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.
-A. W. Tozer
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Court... a place where they dispense with justice.
-Arthur Train
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Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you again what you are to presume. I am the judge. I am telling you that. Presume he is innocent. When you sit there, I want you to look and say to yourself, There sits an innocent man.
-Scott L. Turow
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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
-Mark Twain
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
-Mark Twain
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A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.
-Mark Twain
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We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
-Mark Twain
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He maintained that the case was lost or won by the time the final juror had been sworn in; his summation was set in his mind before the first witness was called. It was all in the orchestration, he claimed: in knowing how and where to pitch each and every particular argument; who to intimidate; who to trust, who to flatter and court; who to challenge; when to underplay and exactly when to let out all the stops.
-Dorothy Uhnak
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The 8 Equities: Physical, Spiritual, Psychological, Intellectual, Emotional, Financial, Social and Family
-Michael Vance
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Justice, Sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honoured, there is a foundation for social security; general happiness and the improvement and progress of our race. And whoever labours on this edifice with usefulness and distinction, whoever clears its foundations, strenthens its pillars, adores its entablatures or contributes to raise its august dome, still higher in the skies, connects himself in name and fame and character with that which is and must be as durable as the freedom of human society.
-Daniel Webster, funeral oration on Mr. Justice Story, 1845
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The weakest arm is strong enough, that strikes
With the sword of justice.
-John Webster
The Duchess Of Malfi, Act V, scene ii
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
-Simone Weil
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One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
-Ida B. Wells
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All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
-Oscar Wilde
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Books about Justice
