"What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow; that is the whole Law: the rest is interpretation." - Hillel (30 B.C.- 10.A.D.) Source: Talm ============================================ Seek justice for all . . . Champion the cause of those who deserve redress for injury to personal property . . . Promote the public good through concerted efforts to secure safe products, a safe work place, a clean environment, and quality healthcare . . . Further the rule of law in a civil justice system, and protect the rights of the accused . . . Advance the common law and the finest traditions of jurisprudence . . . and uphold the honor and ignity of the legal profession and the highest standards of ethical conduct and integrity. Mission Statement - Association of Trial Lawyers of America ============================================ He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: . . . For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:" - List of Colonists' Grievances against King George III, Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 ============================================ "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience." - Oliver Wendell Holmes ============================================ "Where law ends, tyranny begins." - William Pitt ============================================ "The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law." -Winston Churchill ============================================ "I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution." - Thomas Jefferson ============================================ "A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it." - H.W. Beecher ============================================ "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!" - Barry Goldwater ============================================ "Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." - Abraham Lincoln ============================================ The wisdom of our sages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be the creed of our political faith. -Thomas Jefferson First Inaugural Address 1801 ============================================ "Learn to do right; seek justice, encourage the oppressed, defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow." -The Song of Solomon - Isaiah 1:17 ============================================ "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King, Jr. ============================================ "And do as adversaries do in law - Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. - William Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew - Act 1 Scene 2 ============================================ "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." - Mark Twain ============================================ "No man is above the law and no man below it." - Theodore Roosevelt ============================================ "Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order." - Albert Einstein ============================================ "But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal-there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court. It can be the Supreme Court of the United State or the humblest J.P. court in the land, or this honorable court which you serve. Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal." - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird 218 (1960) ============================================ "We can imagine . . . no better way to counter a flag-burner's message than by saluting the flag that burns . . . We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so we dilute the freedom that this cherished emblem represents." - William J. Brennan, Jr. Texas v. Johnson, 109 S. Ct. 2533, 2547-48 (1989) ============================================ "Where there is Hunger, Law is not regarded; and where Law is not regarded, there will be Hunger." - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1755, in Papers of Benjamin Franklin 5:472 (Leonard W. Labaree ed. 1962) ============================================ |
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