Top 31 Equal Justice Under The Law Quotes
#1. I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.
Samuel Dash
#2. He(Prophet Muhammad) laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.
B. Margoliouth
#3. NoH8 on the Hill, NoH8 anywhere. No American, regardless of who they love, should be denied equal protection under the law. History is on our side and our march towards justice will prevail.
Xavier Becerra
#4. Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. Henry
#5. A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness.
Edward Gibbon
#6. We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
Lucy Stone
#7. Equal justice under law is a spiritual as well as a civic principle.
Max Anders
#8. The whole idea of equal justice under law means that you've got to play by the rules. It has nothing to do with the underlying subject matter. You just tell the truth.
Ken Starr
#9. Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.
Rufus Choate
#10. You can't have some institutions that are protected by the law, not allowed to fail, and not held to account, and all the other companies in America are allowed to fail. You can't have equal justice under law and too big to fail.
Eric Schneiderman
#11. That is the definition of equal justice under law: everyone gets a fair shot, everyone pays their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.
Eric Schneiderman
#12. Justice Lewis Powell spoke for all of us when he said: Equal justice under law is perhaps the most inspiring idea of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists.
Edward Kennedy
#13. My hero among heroes is my grandmother, she's the epitome of strength and I try to mock that strength all the time. She's a beast.
Aeriel Miranda
#14. Before Socrates, philosophers were primarily interested in explaining the world around them and the phenomena of that world - in doing what we would now call science. Although Socrates studied science as a young man, he abandoned it to focus his attention on the human condition.
William B. Irvine
#15. Our self-trust is such a subtle thing that it still comes around whispering to us even after we are sure it is gone.
A.W. Tozer
#16. Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.
William Jennings Bryan
#17. As parents one of the biggest jobs we have, is teaching our children how to resolve problems effectively. We live in an era where everyone is quick to act the fool over simple issues. As we used to say when I was on the streets, 'everybody wants to cut a movie'.
Drexel Deal
#18. Every action has equal and opposite reaction. This is law of the universe and spares none. Wrong done and injustice inflicted is paid back in the same coin. No one has escaped justice of the universe. It is only a matter of time.
Anil Sinha
#19. No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.
Ami McKay
#20. Justice in a fallen world is not equality of outcome but equal treatment under a fair law.
Kevin DeYoung
#21. As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.
Otto Wallach
#22. In the Atlantean civilization, law existed to create order, that is to say, to see justice was done. In the old way, the law was equal for all, not the strong win and the weak lose.
Frederick Lenz
#23. Hold your head up high gorgeous, people would kill to see you fall.
Unknown
#24. The repeated demand for "justice," incorporated into the names of many Islamist parties, reflects not so much a demand for social equality as a demand for equal treatment under the law.
Francis Fukuyama
#25. Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken.
Terry Pratchett
#26. Will a nominee embrace and uphold the essential meaning of the four words inscribed above the entrance of the Supreme Court building: Equal justice under law?
Edward Kennedy
#27. A king who is renowned for mercy," said the Arobern, with heavy irony, "must also be renowned in equal measure for injustice.
Rachel Neumeier
#28. The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.
Burke Marshall
#29. At the heart of the American paradigm is the perception that law and its agents . . . police officers, correctional officers, attorneys and judges . . . are color-blind and thus justice is impartial, objective and seeks la verdad (the truth). But, la realidad (reality) differs.
Martin Guevara Urbina
#30. My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law.
Eric Schneiderman
#31. Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?
Edward Kennedy
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