Quotes About Justice

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]

Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.

Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.

I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake.

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.

God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.