Quotes About Justice

Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.

You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.

Should a community... be free to enact legislation to say they don't want blacks? Now that's illegal. Fifty years ago it was legal. Is that progress or is that regress?

I think everything should be governed by law. We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?

Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is not pure altruism - there's a profit to be made too.

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians.

May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.

I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.

I don't tell lies about anybody. That's why i win all my wars.

Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier...while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from its victims.

I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

If we must have heroes and wars whereinto make them, there is no war so brilliant as a war with the wrong, no hero so fit to be sung, as he who has gained the bloodless VICTORY of truth and mercy.

Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without

A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.