Percy Foreman famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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You don't approach a case with the philosophy of applying abstract justice-you go in to win
-- Percy Foreman -
I'm often asked why there is such a great variation among sentences imposed by Texas judges. I can only quote the Texas judge who was asked why a killer sometimes doesn't even get indicted and a cattle thief can get ten years. The judge answered: "A lot of fellows ought to be shot, but we don't have any cows that need stealin".
-- Percy Foreman
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The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.
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There is no justice in following unjust laws.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
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Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
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