"From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him."

-- Hugo Black

#Men Quotes #Law Quotes #Justice Quotes

“There is a proud modesty in merit.”
“What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion--is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.”

Source : William Maxwell (2010). “So Long, See You Tomorrow”, p.28, Random House
“You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Nobody ever talks about the mean things that girls do to each other.”
“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”
“The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.”
“I think there's a good kid underneath everybody. I really do.”
“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”

You may also like:

Abe Fortas
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Earl Warren
Former Chief Justice of the United States
Felix Frankfurter
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
John Marshall Harlan II
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Potter Stewart
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Robert H. Jackson
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Stanley Forman Reed
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
William J. Brennan
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
William O. Douglas
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States