Justice Quotes

"The price of redemption is always paid in full."

"I have a conscience, and it torments me."

"To punish a criminal is to acknowledge his freedom."

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures."

"Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

"The witnesses for the state have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this town, to this state, without coming to grips with this case at all."

"Gentlemen, a court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up."

"The supreme penalty of a man's life is to be thrown into the abyss."

"Poverty is a crime in the sight of heaven."

"I wanted to dare and I murdered. I only wanted to dare, Sonya."

"I will be punished, but not by the law."

"Vengeance is the cry of a heart justly wounded."

"The weak are always judged by the strong, yet truth belongs to neither."

"Society judges women by impossible standards."

"The greatest pleasure of a vindictive nature is not the infliction of the injury, but its contemplation"

"Punishment comes from conscience, not from judges."

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

"I'm simply defending the rights of the accused."

"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow."

"But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Edison, and the ignorant man the equal of any president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court."

"I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system—that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality."

"The wretches of the earth are nothing; they are shadows."

"The sorrows of the poor are forgotten as soon as they are past."

"Vengeance is a luxury the poor cannot afford."

"We are all punished by our own desires."

"The innocent suffer the most."

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom."

"But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal."

"I'm simply defending niggers, as you say."