While I oppose the death penalty as a policy matter, in a legal culture in which we reserve the right to execute people for relatively routine street crimes, it seems quite absurd for the justice system to get squeamish about executing the operational masterminds of Sept. 11.

Major miscarriages of justice have occurred because of the absence of proper legal representation.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

Legal aid is central to righting wrongs and rectifying injustice.

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Fairness is what justice really is.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

More law, less justice.

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

It is essential to the pure and peaceful administration of justice that all its officers keep carefully within the boundaries of their constitutional powers. Auxiliary to this, but not secondary in importance, is a due knowledge of the leading subjects for their inquiry and decision.

Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!

What secret knowledge, one must wonder, is breathed into lawyers when they become Justices of this Court that enables them to discern that a practice which the text of the Constitution does not clearly proscribe, and which our people have regarded as constitutional for 200 years, is in fact unconstitutional?

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.