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• No man's ambition has a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.
  -- John Altgeld...
• The laboring people found the prisons always open to receive them, but the courts of justice were practically closed to them.
  -- John Peter Altgeld (1847-1902)...
• Man stagnates if he has no ambition,...
• Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a duty.
  -- Ulysses S....
• A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ea
  see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief....
• But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 198...
• The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.
  -- John Jay, first Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court -- Georgia vs. Brailsford, 1794:4...
• There can be no justice so long as laws are absolute.
  Even life itself is an exercise in exceptions. When has justice been as simple as a rulebook....
• There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
  -- Isaac Bashevis Singe...