Quotes About Justice

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

Most good lawyers live well, work hard, and die poor.

It is the just doom of laziness and a gluttony to be inactive without ease, and drowsy without tranquillity.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want...everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear... anywhere in the world.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.

0 liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name!

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, "A free field and no favor."

One with the law is a majority.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.

Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust. Let us be merciful as well as just.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.

The best way to uncolor the Negro is to give the white man a white heart.

The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.

Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.