Quotes About Fairness

The essence of justice is mercy.

I judge people based on merit, on personality.

I've always felt all the jobs I've ever got are on merit.

I'm here to govern for everybody and I hope that people judge me on my merits and what I can do.

If you, as a company, can get a deal that I, as a company, cannot get, you can compete with me but not on the merits, because your tax burden is not the same as mine.

We all make mistakes. But I'm lucky. Being from Illinois and from the Midwest, we believe in pretty basic fairness. Once you've made a mistake, get up, dust yourself off, and go to work.

Coal miners work hard and deserve our respect. They also deserve a governor who fights for policies that will give them a fair shot to support their families and get ahead. That's exactly what I'll deliver as governor.

I'm really focused on Minnesota and Minnesotans, and I will come to Washington, D.C., prepared to be a fierce advocate for Minnesotans, especially around economic opportunity and fairness.

The pay in the minor leagues, I think it's terrible, it's disgusting, it's exploitative.

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.

Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.

Minorities do not believe this country will give them a fair shake.

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He had been known to observe casually that in dealing with womankind the only alternative to flattery was cursing and swearing. There was no third method. Treat them fairly, and you are a lost man. he would say.

As if it were Injustice to sell dearer than we buy; or to give more to a man than he merits. The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the Appetite of the Contractors: and therefore the just value, is that which they be contented to give.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. - Thomas Huxley

As George Orwell might have said, with socialism all men are created equal, only some are more equal than others.

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep