Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. Psalms 64:1 – Bible

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

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

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both. – Alice Stone Blackwell