“When you live in a democracy, there are certain things that you believe will never happen to you. Then a day comes when the blindfold is removed and you discover the harsh nature of life at the bottom of the food chain.”
James Lee Burke
Wayfaring Stranger
“I am a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity-these values mean a lot to me.”
Mohammed ElBaradei
Law Scholar and Diplomat
“But there is one way in this country which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man equal of an Einstein, and an ignorant man equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court. It can be the Supreme Court of the United States or the humblest J.P. court in the land, or this honourable court which you serve. Our courts have their faults, as does any human constitution, but in this country our courts are the great levellers, and in our courts all men are created equal.”
Atticus Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."
Albert Pike, Atty
1801-1891
"Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves."
Earl Warren, U.S. Supreme Court
1891-1974
"The Law is a mighty machine. Woe to the unfortunate man who, wholly or in part innocent, becomes entangled in its mighty wheels, unless his innocence is patent or his rescue planned and executed by able counsel. The machine will grind on relentlessly and ruthlessly, and blindfolded justice does not see that the grist is sometimes stained with blood."
Edward Johnes
'The Pardoning Power From a Philosophical Standpoint' (1893)
