“And poise the cause in Justice’s equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.” Henry VI Part 2, Act II, Scene 1. “Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.” Henry VI Part 2, Act II, Scene 3. “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” Henry VI Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2. “The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o’er a cold decree” The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene 2. “How shalt thou hope for mercy, rend’ring none?” The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene 1. “The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.” The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene 1. “Every subject’s duty is the King’s, but every subject’s soul is his own.” Henry V, Act IV, Scene 1. “Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead! Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets.” Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 1. “Use every man after his desert and who shall ’scape whipping?” Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2. “We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch and not their terror.” Measure for Measure, Act II, Scene 1. “Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.” Measure for Measure, Act II, Scene 2. “The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.” King Lear, Act V, Scene 3. “Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.” Timon of Athens, Act III, Scene 5.
