Quotes About Justice

Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.

You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color.

How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?

For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.

In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.

Say, heavenly pow'rs, where shall we find such love? Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Man's mortal crime, and just th' unjust to save.

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.

No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.

They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.

Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.

Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.

Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?

The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.

I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.

If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.