Quotes About Fairness

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

The business of government is justice.

A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.

In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.

It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.

We believe in a government that is characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesn't distort or promise to do things that we know we can't do.

The priority for my government is that there will be development for everyone, equally.

When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.

One law for the lion and ox is oppression.

You do not give preferred deals and dole out favors, lucrative favors, and government partnerships and weapons deals to your clients.

So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.

American families cannot compete with billionaires. Our involvement in government should not be dependent on our bank account balances

Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.

Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.

A government of laws, and not of men

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.

Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.

Justice is happiness according to virtue.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you.

We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.