Percy Foreman quotes

“You don't approach a case with the philosophy of applying abstract justice-you go in to win”
-- Percy Foreman

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“I'm often asked why there is such a great variation among sentences imposed by Texas judges. I can only quote the Texas judge who was asked why a killer sometimes doesn't even get indicted and a cattle thief can get ten years. The judge answered: "A lot of fellows ought to be shot, but we don't have any cows that need stealin".”
-- Percy Foreman

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“The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.”

“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”

“Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.”

“The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 13, 2013

“There is no justice in following unjust laws.”

Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press

“Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.”

“Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.”

“But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.”

“Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.”

“Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?”