The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore
always represented as blind.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore
always represented as blind.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized read more

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary
ideas of criminal justice to this read more

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.

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is
due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom read more

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is
due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom
honour.

Justice is the truth in action.

Justice is the truth in action.

Amongst the sons of men how few are known
Who dare be just to merit not their own.

Amongst the sons of men how few are known
Who dare be just to merit not their own.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and
any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, read more

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and
any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies
under the suspicion of being no policy at all.