Mistakes Quote by Gavin Esler

We must reject the idea that every time a laws broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the…

— Ronald Reagan

America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of…

— W. H. Auden

A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

— Barbara Tuchman

“Americans could once boast proudly that their system set the benchmark for the world; the United States was the rule of law. But now…

— Niall Ferguson

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

— Margaret Mead

We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and…

— Bryan Stevenson

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak…

— Anonymous

Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people…

— Scott Turow

A wonderful quality about America is that we love redemption stories. We're quick to lash out and assign blame, but we also draw from…

— Judy Smith

To summarize: Americans have one of the greatest legal systems, but not a monopoly of the sense of justice, which is universal; nor have…

— Earl Warren

Having lawyers who can set aside their own personal beliefs about their client's alleged behavior or their client's propensity to commit crimes benefits all…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson