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Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices. (Quote by - Edgar Argo)

The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion. (Quote by - Voltaire)

In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman. (Quote by - Abel Hermant)

Law is not justice and a trial is not a scientific inquiry into truth. A trial is the resolution of a dispute. (Quote by - Edison Haines)

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice. (Quote by - Lin Yutang)

Judge: a law student who marks his own papers. (Quote by - H.L. Mencken)

When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation. (Quote by - Vanya Cohen)

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens. (Quote by - Plato)

Law never made men a whit more just. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

His Holiness brings a wealth of experience to this exalted office. The United Nations and the Holy See share a strong commitment to peace, social justice, human dignity, religious freedom and mutual respect among the world's religions. (Quote by - Kofi Annan)

Law: the only game where the best players get to sit on the bench. (Quote by - Author Unknown)

When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now. (Quote by - Edie Cantor)

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want. (Quote by - Aristotle)

As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men. (Quote by - Ignazio Silone)

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)

Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised. (Quote by - Edward Dahlberg)

Injustice never rules forever. (Quote by - Seneca)

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)

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. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)

The more laws, the less justice. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)

Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please. (Quote by - David Dudley Field)

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