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“‘Do equal and exact justice’ is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, ‘Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape'”. –Isaac Parker

“Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken with out developing new evils requiring new remedies”. –William Howard Taft

“A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial”. –Philo

“For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not”. –Learned Hand

“The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will”. –John Marshall

“It is decided as you may have expected; all judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape”. –Mary Shelley

“One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real”. –Klaus Kinski