the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. — Thomas Jefferson
The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — Epictetus
[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others. — John Rawls
A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government. — Byron White
The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men. — Louis D. Brandeis
He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just. — Seneca
The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence. — Mwai Kibaki
The rule of law should be respected so that the basic structure of our democracy is maintained and further strengthened. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens. — Thomas Jefferson
Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties. — John Rawls
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing is to be preferred before justice. — Socrates
I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law — Barack Obama
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
10% of conflict is due to difference in opinion and 90% is due to delivery and tone of voice.
What Is Due Process * Quotes
This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? "Due process". We're very proud of it. — Alex Kozinski
The word today is "detained," not "interred." People are being detained with no due process. They don't know what the charges are, why they're being detained. Simply because they have an Arab name or some association, but there are no charges. — George Takei
I don't know everybody's view on due process, but I do have an opinion on what the Constitution says, what the Pledge of Allegiance implies, what sixth- and seventh-graders are taught in civics classes, and I think it is that you're going to have the opportunity to be heard. — Mike Leach
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
I have to make the very best judgments I can make in terms of what's gonna keep the American people safe. And is what, what's gonna uphold our Constitution and our traditions of due process. — Barack Obama
Due Process Of Law Quotes
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. — Edward R. Murrow
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason. — Edward R. Murrow
Today I will go out with the flow of life and trust the process. I will not stress over things I can't control.
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed. — Byron White
I have never stuck up for any criminal. I have merely asked for the orderly administration of an impartial justice...Due legal process is my own safeguard against being convicted unjustly. To my mind, that's government. That's law and order. — Erle Stanley Gardner
The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states. — Burke Marshall
Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.
As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, `Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.' — Nat Hentoff
We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. — Edward R. Murrow
Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men. — Edward R. Murrow
Most common health conditions might not be purely genetically inherited but potentially due to deficiencies in specific nutrients, impacting methylation processes. — Gary Brecka
After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. — Sophia Loren
History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state. — Michael K. Simpson
Ancestral diets contained nutrients like SAM-e, B complex, and methylfolate found in fruits, cruciferous vegetables, grass-fed meats, fish, chicken, eggs, and dairy. Modern diets lack these nutrients due to processing and use of preservatives. — Gary Brecka
When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and jury - national security letters, no-knock searches, broad general warrants, pre-conviction forfeiture - we begin to have a very serious problem on our hands. — Rand Paul
Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security. — Eric Holder
Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it's a lack of access. It's like, if you're dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process. — Orlando Bloom
The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process. — Eric Holder
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. — William J. Brennan, Jr.
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up. — Daniel Pipes
Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy. — Howard Berman
I think that all of us, as Americans, are due due process and have a right to a fair trial, and have a right to be considered innocent until proven guilty. I think that is the American way and it's the foundation upon which this country was built. — Wesley Snipes
Every day, IRS agents levy liens on homes, bank accounts, and businesses; they confiscate cars, furniture, boats, and other personal property without the constitutional protections of due notice, hearing, and due process. If a person forcibly resists, government agents kill him for resisting arrest. — Jacob G. Hornberger
Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag. — Margaret Thatcher
I'd require that every university, public or private, be governed by the constitutional standards regarding freedom of expression and due process. There is no reason for treating adult college students any differently in the university setting than in the outside world. — Alan Dershowitz
[on Edward Snowden] He should be brought back from Russia and given due process, and I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence. — Mike Pompeo
The definition of hell in the legal system is: endless due process and no justice; (in the corporate world) it would be: endless due diligence and no horse sense. — Charlie Munger
The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product. — Eric Hoffer
Now, how do you explain Obama's claim, that he can kill American citizens without due process? Well, he has his attorney general get up and say, "Well, it doesn't say in the constitution judicial process. It just says due process." Now that's a lawyerly diversion from the truth. — Ray McGovern
Our bill of rights has been shredded. The fourth amendment specifically prohibits the kind of activities the NSA is involved in domestically. The fifth amendment prohibits any president or anyone else from killing anyone without due process. — Ray McGovern
I think the whole human-induced greenhouse gas thing is a red herring... . I see climate change as due to the ocean circulation pattern. I see this as a major cause of climate change... . These are natural processes. We shouldn't blame them on humans and CO2. — William M. Gray
That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as generally violated in practice as conceded in theory. Is not this deplorable situation due to the fact that the doctrine is itself merely told? It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about. — John Dewey
Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error. — Benjamin Cardozo
Ylli, Agron and Mehmet were never given a fair and public trial, an opportunity to defend themselves, or any semblance of due process. Their post-conflict, extrajudicial killing was cold-blooded murder. — Avis Bohlen
Outside of America, there are many people, myself included, who champion values that, in some senses, could be thought of as traditionally American - the idea that everybody's equal, that the rights of women and men should be the same, that there should be no discrimination on religious or sexual orientation, that democracy and rule of law and due process are the ways in which society should govern themselves and minorities should be cared for. — Mohsin Hamid
I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings. — L. Neil Smith
Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law. The States are charged with punishing all such invasions as the common rights of the citizens, but some of them have failed in their effort to do so, and others have not honestly tried. Meanwhile, lynchings continue, and though they do not increase in number, they show some tendency to increase in savagery. — H. L. Mencken
The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution. — June L. Trapp
Indictments of any kind are serious. That being said, let's not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process in this country. — Rob Simmons
Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest. — Rowan Williams
In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system. — Paul Gillmor
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