Quotes About Justice

Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

This kind of war, you've gotta believe in what you're fighting for.

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.

War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.

If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.

I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

I don't care how much evidence the state presented. I've never for one moment believed he murdered that waitress.

Daisy leaned down to thump him on the back while she beamed at Kimberly's shocked face. "I don't care how much evidence the state presented. I've never for one moment believed he murdered that waitress." This started Alex choking all over again. Kimberly quickly backed away. "I—excuse me. My next order's up." "Run along," Daisy said gaily. "And God bless!

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.

Dunyazad was right about Princess Budur- and all the rest of those story women who dress up as men and do man things perfectly well. One thing those tales are saying underneath is that women aren't inferior. They're equal to men.

No, Wright wouldn't like the bird—a thing that sang. She used to sing. He killed that, too.

No, Mrs. Peters doesn't need supervising. For that matter, a sheriff's wife is married to the law.

Oh, I wish I'd come over here once in a while! That was a crime! That was a crime! Who's going to punish that?

No, Peters, it's all perfectly clear except a reason for doing it. But you know juries when it comes to women.

There is always time to make right what is wrong.

Martin White, who stood up and said his piece. Claimed that he was a good Free-State man, but a free white state man, and he intended to obey the laws, and the rest of us should as well.