"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws." - Francis Bacon

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." - William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England

"Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offence." - Cicero

"Justice shines by its own light." - Cicero, De Officiis

"There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court." - Clarence S. Darrow

"There is no such thing as justice-in or out of court." - Clarence S. Darrow, quoted in New York Times

"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes." - Daniel Defoe, The Shortest Way With The Dissenters

"Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned." - Anatole France, Crainquebille

"Justice delayed, is justice denied." - William Ewart Gladstone

"Fidelity is the sister of justice." - Horace

"Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds in favour of Judas." - Henry Louis Mencken

"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical." - Blaise Pascal

"The minute you read something you can't understand, you can almost be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer." - Will Rogers

"There is a point at which even justice does injury." - Sophocles

"It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one." - Voltaire, Zadig

"Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilised beings and civilised nations together." - Daniel Webster

"For justice, though she's painted blind,
Is to the weaker side inclined."
- SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1680), Hudibras

"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice." - H.L. MENCKEN, Prejudices

"Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us." - THOMAS OTWAY, Venice Preserved

"Mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it." - PLATO, The Republic

"The judge is condemned when the criminal is acquitted." - PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Maxims

"We love justice greatly, and just men but little." - JOSEPH ROUX, Meditations of a Parish Priest

"Use every man after his desert, and who should `scape whipping?" - SHAKESPEAR, Hamlet

"There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust." - SOPHOCLES, Electra