"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom."

— John Locke

"Let me be clear — no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions."

— Antonio Villaraigosa

"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."

— Martin Luther King Jr.

"But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer."

— Dr. Allan Woodcourt to the wrongly accused George Rouncewell — Charles Dickens, Bleak House

"If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists — to protect them and to promote their common welfare — all else is lost."

— Barack Obama

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."

— Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird

"Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot every man his due."

— Aristotle

"Justice is merely incidental to law and order."

— J. Edgar Hoover