“What does it matter if an individual is shattered - if only justice is resurrected?”
Paul Muni - Emile Zola

“- Major Tetley: Other men with families have had to die for this sort of thing. It's too bad, but it's justice.
- Donald Martin: What do you care about justice? You don't even care whether you've got the right men or not. All you know is you've lost something and somebody's got to be punished.”
Frank Conroy - Major Tetley
Dana Andrews - Donald Martin

“- D.A. Rufus Buckley: Do you think two men who hang a child should be free in 10 years?
- Carl Lee Hailey: No sir.
- D.A. Rufus Buckley: Well what do you think should happen? What would be a fair sentence?”
Kevin Spacey - D.A. Rufus Buckley
Samuel L. Jackson - Carl Lee Hailey

“From the decay rose a new order, a society ruled by a new, elite force. A force with the power to dispense both justice and punishment. They were the police, jury and executioner all in one. They were the Judges.”
James Earl Jones - Narrator

“The wrath of heaven must be at hand! Its justice will not tarry! I see the deadly thunderbolt poised above his head!”
Andre Gregory - Aubrey Buffing