The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.
Law and justice are not always the same.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Criminal conduct by police officers, federal agents, and their confederates cannot be tolerated and will be met with the full force of the law.
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.
No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.