Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Topics:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the topics)
(Click a letter to view the topics)
Letter "J" » Justice
«To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.»
Author: Byron R. White
| About:
Justice,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
affected, death penalty, defendant, defendants, deprive, entitled, exclude, impartial, juror, jurors, jury, penalty, prospect, slightest
«The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.»
Author: Irving R. Kaufman
| About:
Hope,
Justice,
People,
Society,
Trust
| Keywords:
ammunition, armor, cloak, collective, public trust, sole, Supreme Court, The Collective
«This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
| About:
Justice,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
court, courted, courting, Court of, Court of Justice, court of law, Law and Justice, This is a, young man
«Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.»
«Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
Cooperation,
Force,
Justice,
Peace
| Keywords:
consideration, cooperation, emergency, fairness, protect, with consideration
«The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.»
Author: Friedrich von Schiller
(Dramatist, Historian, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Justice,
Majority
| Keywords:
The Voice
«The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Justice,
Liberty
| Keywords:
courts, Court of Justice, Give Me Liberty, legislature, Legislatures, secure
«The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Happiness,
Justice
| Keywords:
moderation, regulated, regulates, regulating
«To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Humanity,
Justice,
Sin
| Keywords:
devilish, justify, sins
«The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
History,
Justice,
World
| Keywords:
History of, History of the, History of the world, nations, no longer, summed, sum up
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!