Able Quote by Edmund Burke

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

— Earl Warren

“Indeed, the Judges in the courts of law are more likely to be exposed to conflicts and disputes where the utility of law is…

— Henrietta Newton Martin

“We are not under its [the laws] curses, but we are under its commands. We are not under the law for judgement, but we…

— Samuel Bolton

The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of the successive…

— Learned Hand

To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when…

— Jonathan Mayhew

Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.

— Che Guevara

“There was a logic behind the English cocoon-law requirement of a duty to retreat in a threatening situation: it was that the state-the Crown-wished…

— Richard Maxwell Brown

“Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be…

— James Madison

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

— Suzanne La Follette

The judges are subject to the law.

— Yoav Gallant

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

— Gloria Steinem

“Justice is like an invisible creature that flees before us. As long as we keep chasing it, we have it. It's the constant seeking…

— Torgny Lindgren