The solicitor general is sometimes referred to as the 10th Supreme Court justice - a pretty important position.
Arlen Specter
The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.
Gerry Spence
The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social... →
Anna Garlin Spencer
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.
Stephen Spender
If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because... →
Lysander Spooner
If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the... →
The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law can be measured. Law... →
Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.
Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties... →
The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the law, or the justice... →