Legal Quotes

The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.
US Supreme Court
Justice Robert H. Jackson Krulewitch  US (1949) 336 US 440 at page 458

Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects.  
Julius J Epstein et. Ors. The film Casablanca 1942

 

Let’s find out what everyone is doing, and then stop everyone from doing it.

A.P Herbert , 1930

 

However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it most people will think it is wrong.

W. Somerset Maugham 1896

 

Here [in Paris] they hang a man first, and try him afterwards.

Moliere 1670

 

Policemen, like red squirrels, must be protected.

Joe Orton, 1967

 

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find trout in the milk.

Henry David Thoreau

 

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one

Voltaire

 

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King Junior – Letter from Birmingham Jail.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man.
Thomas Aldrich

British Justice is in ruins

Lord Denning commenting on the case of the Guildford Four - 'Travesty- Miscarriage of Justice' 1991 at page 24.