Justice System Quotes

Society cannot flourish without faith in justice. The justice system is the complex structure through which we seek to achieve this lofty principle.

It encompasses everything. From drafting laws to applying them. Down to rehabilitating offenders. It seeks to achieve balance between punishment and reform. Between security and freedom.

But it is a flawed system. Constantly evolving. These sayings contemplate the challenges and aspirations of this vital system.

Quote by Thomas Sowell: In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing s...
Quote by Kamala Harris: I am a prosecutor in my bones. When I see something, I immediately go to: how is this going to affec...
Quote by Dave Barry: We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admi...
Quote by Ralph Nader: To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capit...
Quote by Barack Obama: I don't want to exaggerate; having as many African American men as we've had in the criminal-justice...
Quote by H. L. Mencken: The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it ...
Quote by Albert Camus: So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the...
Quote by Barack Obama: Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment....
Quote by Henry Ford: Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for p...
Quote by H. L. Mencken: Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of bl...
Quote by Kamala Harris: I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions a...
Quote by Kamala Harris: Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes....
Quote by Mark Twain: A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder ...
Quote by Thomas Jefferson: Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for...
Quote by Thomas Jefferson: Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep....
Quote by Barack Obama: I want to make sure that as president of the United States that I'm not asserting in some way that m...
Quote by Ronald Reagan: The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay....
Quote by Ralph Nader: Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely ...
Quote by Barack Obama: I think every case is different. Every situation is different. People come on the F.B.I.'s radar scr...
Quote by H. L. Mencken: Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the c...
Quote by Franz Kafka: I don't know who the great lawyers are, and I presume you can't get to them. I know of no case where...
Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.: Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make...
Quote by Mahatma Gandhi: Men in prison are
Quote by Barack Obama: I can guarantee that not because I give Attorney General [Loretta] Lynch a directive. That is instit...
Quote by H. L. Mencken: Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business...
Quote by Charles Dickens: Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equit...
Quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger: I have to say that the judges and our judiciary system makes better decisions than the politicians....
Quote by Thomas Jefferson: Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps thr...
Quote by George Carlin: If you have a legal problem, guess how you determine whether or not you need a lawyer. You see a law...
Quote by Mark Twain: The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and...
Quote by Ralph Nader: The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails....
Quote by George Carlin: Have you ever noticed that the lawyer always smiles more than the client?...