Criminal Justice

"... law logic -- an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else."
        --John Quincy Adams

"I promise you a police car on every sidewalk."
        --Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash. D.C.

"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate."
        --Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash. D.C.

"When you have no basis for argument, abuse the plaintiff."
        --Marcus Tullius Cicero

"I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement."
        --Calvin Coolidge

"There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action."
        --Clarence Darrow

"The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial."
        --Justice William O. Douglas

"Jury: Twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer."
        --Robert Frost

"Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigor of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind."
        --Edward Gibbon, The Decline andFall of the Roman Empire

"If it weren't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them."
        --A. K. Griffin

"Truth telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: every single one was a liar."
        --J. Edgar Hoover

"An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental."
        --Thomas Jefferson

"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."
        --H. L. Mencken

"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice."
        --Thomas Moore

"Justice is the insurance we have in our lives, and obedience is the premium we pay for it."
        --William Penn

"I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers; when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their names."
        --Will Rogers

"There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness."
        --Will Rogers