Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.
When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers.
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.
Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you.
All lawyers are going to have to - if we really want to attain civil justice - address the issue of how complicated we have made the laws: what we have done to ensnarl the American people in bureaucratic rules and regulations that make access to services or compliance with the law sometimes difficult, if not impossible.
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
The first step into justice begins with the politicians. You have to demand from yourself what you demand from people.