King Jehosophat to Judah's judges:

"Consider carefully what you do, because you are not judging for man but for the LORD, who is with you whenever you give a verdict. Now let the fear of the LORD be upon you. Judge carefully for with the LORD our God there is not injustice or partiality or bribery." ~ 2 Chronicles 19:6-7

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All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.
~Andrew Jackson

We are taught for a comfort in this life that in the future there will certainly be more equity in distributing justice; that fully one-half of the judges shall be of either sex, so that all law and custom shall not be made in the interests of part of the race and executed for one party's whims, to the detriment of the other party's rights.
~Caroline Nichols Churchill, "Active Footsteps" ch. 16, 1909

If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected — those, precisely, who need the laws' protection most! — and listens to their testimony.
~James Baldwin, "No Name in the Street," The Price of the Ticket, 1972

Judges ought to remember that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare-to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.~Francis Bacon, Essays, LVI (1625)