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The place of justice is a hallowed place
The place of justice is a hallowed place
Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!
Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!
The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux read more
The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.
Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. read more
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.
 God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance,
 Rests never on the track until it reach
  Delinquency.  
 God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance,
 Rests never on the track until it reach
  Delinquency. 
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, read more
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
If it doen't make sense, you should find for the defense.
If it doen't make sense, you should find for the defense.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take read more
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
 Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, 
therefore, for her own sake.
 [Lat., Justitia read more 
 Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, 
therefore, for her own sake.
 [Lat., Justitia nihil exprimit praemii, nihil pretii: per se 
igitur expetitur.]