Quotes About Justice

As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars)

Arise, 0 Yahweh; Judge the earth! May you take possession of all the nations!

If our forefathers make the world awry, must our children be the ones to pay to right it?

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

In an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

There is but one blasphemy, and that is injustice.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying "I am innocent of the blood of this just person: See to it." Then answered all the people, and said "His blood be on us, and on our children."

Good is when I steal other people's wives and cattle; bad is when they steal mine.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

Innocence finds not near so much protection as guilt.

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.

A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! O wise young judge, how I do honor thee!

Let the judges answer to the question of law, and the jurors to the matter of fact.

Judges are apt to be naive, simple-minded men.

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.

Give your decision, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Are you good men and true?

The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty, and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

The Court's authority - possessed of neither the purse nor the sword -ultimately rests on substantial public confidence in its moral sanctions.