Justice Quotes - Page 33

• Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Art, Men, Law

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• Many Westerners forget that when the Prophet spoke of four wives as the maximum allowable number, he had in mind a reduction to four as compared to the number then often prevailing; moreover, Mohammed specified that a man should acquire more than one wife only if he could treat them all with equal justice - obviously a difficult feat for even the most diligent man to achieve. In effect, then, the Prophet curtailed the number of wives.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Men, Numbers, Wife

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran) (1962). “Maʼmūriyyat barȧ-yi vaṭanam”

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• I have always endeavoured, as my double duty of believer and sovereign dictated, to follow the precepts of the sacred Book of Islam: precepts of balance, justice and moderation. Although my religious education was very literal, in that I learnt to understand the precepts of the Koran precisely according to the text, we have seen that on several occasions throughout my life, I have felt myself to be very particularly in the hands of the Almighty.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Religious, Book, Hands

  "The Shah's Story". Book by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, p. 166, 1980.

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• It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kindness, Grateful, Men

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• We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Years, Experience, Gains

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• Heaven's slow but sure redress of human ills.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Heaven, Redress, Humans

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• Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Opportunity, Law, Doubt

  "Frank v. Magnum, 237 U.S. 309, 347". Judicial opinion, 1915.

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• Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Expression, Ideas, Differences

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• We are not final because we are infallible, but infallible only because we are final.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Law, Honor, Finals

  Brown v. Allen (concurring opinion) (1953)

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• The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right.

  Potter Stewart

  Truth, Speaks Out, Law

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• In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously interpreted, enforced and respected so as to afford continuous protection against old, as well as new, devices and practices which might thwart those purposes. I fear to see the consequences of the Court's practice of substituting its own concepts of decency and fundamental justice for the language of the Bill of Rights as its point of departure in interpreting and enforcing that Bill of Rights.

  Hugo Black

  Rights, Law, Practice

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• What finally emerges from the 'clear and present danger' cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious and the degree of imminence extremely high before utterances can be punished...It must be taken as a command of the broadest scope that explicit language, read in the context of a liberty-loving society, will allow.

  Hugo Black

  Taken, Evil, Liberty

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• [Y]ou wonder why anyone would make the mistake of calling it the Commerce Clause instead of the 'Hey, you -can-do-whatever-you-feel-like Clause?

  Alex Kozinski

  Mistake, Hey, Calling

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• It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.

  James Mackintosh

  Freedom, Responsibility, Rights

  Sir James Mackintosh (1835). “History of the Revolution in England in 1688: Comprising a View of the Reign of James II. from His Accession, to the Enterprise of the Prince of Orange”, p.24

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• The nation relies upon public discussion as one of the indispensable means to attain correct solutions to problems of social welfare. Curtailment of free speech limits this open discussion. Our whole history teaches that adjustment of social relations through reason is possible when free speech is maintained.

  Stanley Forman Reed

  Mean, Rely Upon, Speech

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• The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Prayer, Protection, Behalf

  Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.51

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• Justice always whirls in equal measure.

  William Shakespeare

  Equal

  William Shakespeare (1767). “Mr. William Shakespeare: His Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies”

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• Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Men, Should

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• Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.

  Thomas More

  Two, Evil, Greed

  1516 Utopia (English translation1556), bk.2.

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• It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world.

  W. C. Fields

  Men, Twelve, World

  W. C. Fields (1968). “Drat! Being the encapsulated view of life”

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• The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.

  Confucius

  Men, Comfort, Favors

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• Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Uncertain, Verdict, Injustice

  "Cases in the King's Bench" (1773), Hilary Term, 13 Geo. III, Lofft. 147 in "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (p. 146), 1904.

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• Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Long, Lasts, Sides

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.91, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.

  Sallust

  Art, Passion, Government

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• To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Strong, Law, Two

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