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I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.
Promise in haste, repent at leisure,
He that will be served must bee patient.
I beg for justice, which you, Prince, must give. Romeo killed Tybalt; Romeo must not live.
He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
Accept this: your mortal is doomed."
"Please, Aric. I'm begging you!"
He whirled around, fury in his expression. "You refused - twice - to beg me for your own life, but you'd beg for his?"
I whispered, "Yes.
Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.
Resolve, and thou art free.
Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.
I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.
Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.
Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
Pardon is granted to necessity.
Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.
You are on your knees. . . .we are not negotiating.
I have pleaded (labor's) case, not in the quavering tones of a feeble mendicant asking alms, but in the thundering voice of the captain of a mighty host, demanding the rights to which free men are entitled.
Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.
The law isn't merciful.
I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.
Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them.
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.
Do you find
Your patience so predominant in your nature
That you can let this go? Are you so gospelled,
To pray for this good man and for his issue,
Whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave,
And beggared yours for ever?
Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.
If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.
An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.
Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.
Who asks for justice? We make our own justice.
Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
Surrender to the ridiculous
There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.
When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.
I don't beg, it's beneath me
All my requests are in but one, thy Will be done.
Resisting is worth doing.
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.
1 Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man!
Have contempt for contempt.
Take, this day, my hand
and promise to absolve
what my forefathers and I did
to you and your kin.
I ask for nothing but to live in my suffering.
All that the Devil asks is acquiescence ...
In desperate position, you must fight.
The justice I have received, I shall give back.
The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.
If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.
When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.
You don't have to beg God; you just have to act upon His Word.
I am in earnest
I will not equivocate
I will not excuse
I will not retreat a single inch
And I will be heard.
Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.
Pledge allegiance to the struggle.
Stop, would you kindly? 'Would you kindly'. Powerful phrase. Familiar phrase? Sit, would you kindly? Stand, would you kindly? Run! Stop! Turn. A man chooses, a slave obeys. Kill! A man chooses! A slave obeys! OBEY!
Thou Power Supreme, whose mighty scheme These woes of mine fulfil, Here firm I rest; they must be best, Because they are Thy will! Then all I want - O do Thou grant This one request of mine! - Since to enjoy Thou dost deny, Assist me to resign.
Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.
Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason, to promote its repeal.
All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day.
If it does not fit, you must acquit.
Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.
I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject.
Remember: Resist do not comply
I was not born for courts or great affairs;I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers.Pope.
I ain't the type for begging, I am not the type to plead. If she don't change those evil ways, I'm gonna make her bleed.
It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
With legal aid now capped at the bus fare for a trainee solicitor to come and explain how to plead guilty, Rumpole desperately needed a more remunerative outlet for his legal knowledge. Inspired
Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.
In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
Stop!" Jerome Squalor pleaded. "In the name of injustice!
He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.
Today I ask you in the name of Christ and the Church, never tire of being merciful.
By yielding you may obtain victory
Interceded? You threw me to the sharks!
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Justice will prevail!
Justice renders to every one his due.
The Supreme Court has declared that such a plea of nolo contendere "admits guilt for the purposes of the case.
I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time
Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.
before a jury. It takes time: time to
Justice doesn't talk. It sings!
Justice?
You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.
I vow to serve, to pay my dues
And train myself for Legal use.
I vow to bear the Surplus shame
And repay Nature for the same
I vow to listen, not to speak;
To steel myself when I am weak.
I vow to work and most of all
To serve the State if it should call.
Behold, my friends, I am justice.
And when at last we meet, you will not like it.
And if irony awakens in you at the end, see me weep with these tears of jade, and answer with a smile.
If you've the courage.
Have you, my friends, the courage?
Too long I've owed you this apology
For the apparently unmeaning sorrow
You were afflicted with in those old days.
But it was of the essence of the trial
You shouldn't understand it at the time.
We find something of the favour sought in a graceful refusal.
The promises made by a guilty conscience acknowledge and settle no debts...
When the time is right, when these feelings of rage and unfairness once again overcome me, I will not faint. I will fight.
I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.
Surrender. Surrender.
Justice is like a great home cooked meal; it may not come at the ideal time, but when it does it is served and delicious.
When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust ... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad ...
Surely this trial is just for a season. All I need is the strength to endure - to see through the darkness of winter to the promise of spring.
You have both contested well: the one is forced by his sorrow to lament, the other by the plaintiff's attack to tell the truth. So plaintiff, yours is the honour! And Death, yours is the victory! Every man is obliged to give his life to Death, his body to the earth, and his soul to Us.
He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.
Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.
Do not beg for what does not want to stay.
I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.
My client," the lawyer said forcefully, "is pleading the Fifth.
To Confess Is To Surrender