Quotes About Justice

[Black Hawk] has done nothing for which an Indian ought to be ashamed. He has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came year after year, to cheat them and take away their lands. You know the cause of our making war. It is known to all white men. They ought to be ashamed of it.

Bad men, like good men, are entitled to be tried and sentenced in accordance with law, and when it is shown to us that a person is serving an illegal sentence our obligation is to direct that proper steps be taken to correct the wrong done, without regard to the character of a particular defendant.

The Pledge of Allegiance, ultimately, is coffee for elementary school students. "...And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. F***, I'm at SCHOOL! Can we say it again? I need a second cup."

The principal duty of the king is, to govern his people according to law.

It is held, it is true, and very justly, by the principal of our ethical writers, that human laws are binding upon men's consciences. But if that were the only, or most forcible obligation, the good only would regard the laws, and the bad would set them at defiance.

The doctrine of the law then is this: that precedents and rules must be followed, unless flatly absurd or unjust: for though their reason be not obvious at first view, yet we owe such a deference to former times as not to suppose they acted wholly without consideration.

Equity thus depending, essentially, upon the particular circumstances of each individual case, there can be no established rules and fixed precepts of equity laid down, without destroying it's very essence.

Popular assemblies are frequently foolish in their contrivance, and weak in their execution; but generally mean to do the thing that is right and just.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Justice without strength is helpless, strength without justice is tyrannical…. Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

If I ran the world--and God knows I could do a better job of it than the yahoos doing it now--any leader who sent troops off to fight would have to march at the head of the ranks. That would bring about world peace in four weeks.

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

When I tell any Truth it is not for the sake of Convincing those who do not know it but for the sake of defending those who Do.

A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state.

Equal rights before the law, freedom of conscience, freedom of the press, all of these things were...trampled underfoot and spat upon.

But in that lightning moment that exposed the country's deep racial divide, there was something about O.J.'s going free that, to my surprise, made me inexplicably happy.

they all say they are my friends, and that I shall have justice, but while their mouths all talk right I do not understand why nothing is done for my people.

Don't get me wrong. There are times when following the call of God demands that we speak out loudly against flagrant evil. But if that's all we do, particularly if most of our speaking out is only to each other, we are not being salt. The way to be salt is to replace evil with good, not just to sound off against the evil.

Again, to speak out for what is true and right requires more than just railing against evil. The call is for rational, cogent, well-crafted presentations of positive alternatives gleaned from Scriptures.