The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law. Winston Churchill View this quote
The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law. Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law. Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard
But they don’t use law-they use law for their interests. They don’t go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever is expedient to protect the interests that are at stake. Malcolm X
Malcolm X
A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it. Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential application of law, which said that a man’s life was sacred only if we agreed with his views. Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly. William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery. Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
For he that is delighted by concord, And who abideth in the Law, Falleth not from Security. Buddha
Buddha
I was married once – in San Francisco. I haven’t seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There’s no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren’t all bad. W. C. Fields
W. C. Fields
