The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich. – Proverb
Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. – Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton
I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country – Joseph Addison
Never pray for justice, because you might get some. – Margaret Atwood
The place of justice is a hallowed place. – Francis Bacon
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. – Francis Bacon
The price of Justice is eternal publicity. – Arnold Bennett
Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. Psalms 64:1 – Bible
For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou has tried us, as silver is tried. Psalms 66:10 – Bible
Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw. – Ambrose Bierce
Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. – Ambrose Bierce
Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both. – Alice Stone Blackwell
Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality. – Linda Blandford
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. – Anne Dudley Bradstreet
Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you. – John Bunyan
Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trial as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible of application. – Warren Earl Burger
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. – Edmund Burke
