1. Even if the judgment does not accurately determine the truth of what happened in the past, the parties to the dispute will voluntarily accept the outcome of the court's decision as long as they are convinced that they have been treated fairly. --Michael D. Bales?
2. The law is to prohibit the people from doing wrong and to make them move from good to evil. --Ouyang Xiu
3. The efficacy of the law is shifted by the love and respect it arouses, which is shifted by the inner feeling that the law is just and reasonable. --Robespierre
4. The condemned should not be treated as humiliated, but should be reintegrated into society as repentant. --Radbrugge?
5. Whosoever makes a law for another should apply the same law to himself. --Aquinas
6. The force of the law should follow the citizen as the shadow follows the body. --Beccaria?
7. Freedom is a way of life that must have its own authoritative discipline of self as well as constraints. --Lippmann
8. If you really want to relieve a country of its internal troubles you should rely on good legislation, not on chance. --Aristotle
9, The strongest restraining force against crime is not the severity of the penalty, but the certainty of the penalty ......, for, even the smallest evil, once it has become certain, is always palpable. --Beccaria