Quotes About Justice

If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.

Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.

I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.

I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!

There is no client as scary as an innocent man.

Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man.

Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral

The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer-he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.

From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men

I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Folks can believe what they like but eventually a man's got to declare if he's going to do what is right.

The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.

Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.

For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.