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“To summarize: Americans have one of the greatest legal systems, but not a monopoly of the sense of justice, which is universal; nor have we a permanent copyright on the means of securing justice, for it is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.”

Mean Form Law Spirit Justice Alive Universal Permanent Monopoly Copyright Legal System

Book:The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren

Source: The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren

“Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.”

Law Justice Imagine Corruption Lawyer Clients Controversial Representing Despised Legal System

Book:Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)

Source: Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)

“The legal system doesn't work. Or more accurately, it doesn't work for anyone except those with the most resources. Not because the system is corrupt. I don't think our legal system (at the federal level, at least) is at all corrupt. I mean simply because the costs of our legal system are so astonishingly high that justice can practically never be done.”

Thinking Mean Done Justice Levels Cost Resources Legal System

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.”

Problem Justice Steps Failing Obligation Mutual Trusted Honored Legal System

Book:Woman as Artist and Thinker

Source: Woman as Artist and Thinker