Quotes About Justice

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

For long ages, too, no notice whatever was taken of the criminals sin; he was regarded as harmful, not guilty, and looked upon as a piece of destiny; and the criminal on his side took his punishment as a piece of destiny which had overtaken him, and bore it with the same fatalism ... In general we may say that punishment tames the man, but does not make him better.

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights

Those who are entitled to it get it sooner or later.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty.

I'm one of the undeserving poor.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black.

Love does not mean the abandonment of justice and right; nor is it a sentimental benevolence which does not have the capacity for holy wrath.

In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

The law's made to take care o' raskills.

They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.