Fair Judgment Quotes

In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.

Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense.

I will not vote for - and no senator should vote for - anyone who will not render justice impartially.

In the criminal justice community, as a judge, being tough is not enough. You have to be fair.

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

Every man may think his own cause just till it be heard and judged.

The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.

Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor.

When I want to think about what would be the right thing to do, the fair thing to do, the wise thing to do, I can just think of my grandmother. I can always hear her say, "Now sister, you know what's right. Just do right!"

To see both sides of a quarrel, is to judge without hate or alarm

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment.

I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.

I like for things to be judged fairly.

One day Jesus is going to come back and reign with perfect justice. There will be no questions about what's happened. There will be perfect justice and I look forward to that day.

How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises?

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'

It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.

I just want to believe that, as a citizen in this country, that I have equal protection under the law and that I can have a situation assessed fairly, that people can look at it, and that a court of law can determine what the outcome is.

A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin

Throughout my decade on the bench, I have watched my colleagues strive day in and day out to do just as Socrates said we should - to hear courteously, answer wisely, consider soberly, and decide impartially.