Quotes About Justice

Customs have been handed down by ages of repetition, but the punishment for ignoring a custom is a matter for individual treatment by a jury of the culprit's peers, and I may say that justice seldom misses fire, but seems rather to rule in inverse ratio to the ascendency of law.

Well as, one judge said to the other, "Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary."

Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game.

Law and order are never enough to keep a people dancing.

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

We know what works: Freedom works. We know what's right: Freedom is right. We know how to secure a more just and prosperous life for man on Earth: through free markets, free speech, free elections, and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state.

The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

No President has ever done more for human rights than I have.

I don't think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don't think that's right. I think the reason to support the death penalty is because it saves other people's lives.

No device of man can remove the tragedy from war, yet it is a great advance when the guilty have far more to fear from war than the innocent.

My administration has a job to do and we're going to do it. We will rid the world of the evil-doers.

Like slavery and piracy, terrorism has no place in the modern world.

Using a man for his money is payback for men using women for, well, just about everything.

Persecution on racial or religious ground has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty and which calls itself a democracy.

For Justice, though she's painted blind, Is to the weaker side inclin'd.

No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows.

They never fail who die In a great cause: the block may soak their gore: Their heads may sodden in the sun; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls-- But still their Spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to Freedom.

Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

What was the need for law enforcement when it held victims more accountable than the criminals?

You can't say that the law is the power of God unto salvation. The law is the will of God, but it is certainly not the power of God to save people.

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

The other was that all the major civil rights organizations, new as well as old, were committed to the philosophy of non-violence, the doctrine preached by the most conspicuous leader in the Negro movement, Martin Luther King. 'We will soon wear you down by our capacity to suffer,' he told the whites, 'and in winning our freedom we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.