An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men. ~Ignazio Silone
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. ~Thomas Szasz
Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known. ~Charles Evans Hughes
The jury, passing on the prisoner's life,
May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two
Guiltier than him they try.
~William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
It is not a Justice System. It is just a system. ~Bob Enyart
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. ~S.I. Hayakawa
The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want. ~Aristotle, Politics
Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverb
The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws. ~Tacitus, Annals
The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law. ~Lysander Spooner, Trial by Jury
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