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To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty. -- Stephen Breyer
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. -- Lord Acton
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. -- Adam Smith
The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government. -- George Washington
Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration. -- Earl Warren
Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good Government, I have considered the first arrangement of the Judicial department as essential to the happiness of our Country, and to the stability of its political system. -- George Washington
How long shall we blunder along without the aid of unpartisan and authoritative scientific assistance in the administration of justice, no one knows; but all fair persons not conventionalized by provincial legal habits of mind ought, I should think, unite to effect some change. -- Learned Hand
... The popular attitude toward the administration of justice should be one of respect and confidence. Bureaucratic, purely official justice, can never receive such confidence. The one way to secure it is to give the citizen-body itself a share in the administration of justice. And that is what jury-trial does. -- John Henry Wigmore
Every improvement in our conceptions of justice, as well as in the machinery for the administration of justice, whereby a closer approximation to exact justice may be secured, will make for social peace, though the mere adjudication of conflicting interests will not remove the conflicts themselves nor their cause. That lies deeper than legislatures or courts can probe. -- Thomas Nixon Carver
The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society depend so much upon an upright and skillful administration of justice, that the judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that. -- John Adams
The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with the feelings, the affections, the municipal institutions, and the internal arrangements of the whole population. They possess, too, the immediate administration of justice in all cases, civil and criminal, which concern the property, personal rights, and peaceful pursuits of their own citizens. -- Joseph Story
I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth. -- Elliot Richardson
The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control. -- Millard Fillmore
It is essential to the pure and peaceful administration of justice that all its officers keep carefully within the boundaries of their constitutional powers. Auxiliary to this, but not secondary in importance, is a due knowledge of the leading subjects for their inquiry and decision. -- Levi Woodbury
Bush is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all. And I'm going to take the country in an opposite direction than he's taking it. -- Dennis Kucinich
We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration. -- Tony Abbott
Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice. -- Joseph Story
All the public systems "? administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity. -- Rahul Gandhi
There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice. -- Alexander Hamilton
I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many. -- Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

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