Due Process Quotes

“In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.”
― Euripides, The Children of Herakles

“Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)”
― Seneca, Medea

“ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice.”
― Aeschylus, Eumenides

“Law reflects but in no sense determines the moral worth of a society. The values of a reasonably just society will reflect themselves in a reasonably just law. The better the society, the less law there will be. In heaven there will be no law, and the lion shall lie down with the lamb. The values of an unjust society will reflect themselves in an unjust law. The worse the society, the more law there will be. In hell there will be nothing but law, and due process will be meticulously observed.”
― Grant Gilmore, The Ages of American Law

“A hanging typically occurs after someone is found guilty in the eyes of the law and irredeemable in the eyes of society. A lynching is the killing of an individual for how they look and what they represent to a vigilante mob.”
― Stewart Stafford

“A forced confession is no confession at all”
― Todd Stocker

“Results are their own propaganda. The vast majority of the people are free, prosperous, and safe under the Phoenix Society's rule. They are happy. Why should they care if the likes of you are denied due process?" --Imaginos”
― Matthew Graybosch, Without Bloodshed

“My fundamental position is that women are human beings, with the full range of saintly and demonic behaviours this entails, including criminal ones. They're not angels, incapable of wrongdoing. If they were, we wouldn't need a legal system.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Openness in political decision-making matters. It is key to maintaining confidence in public institutions and to achieving fairness and due process.”
― Aileen Nielsen, Practical Fairness: Achieving Fair and Secure Data Models

“As a prosecutor she had been able to knit a defendant's criminal life together that way when preparing for trial, bridging one step up to the next on the criminal evolutionary scale. And she would try like hell to get it all past the presiding judge.
Now she was the judge. And as a judge, she had to adhere to a different standard.”
― Tami Hoag, Prior Bad Acts