Quotes About Justice

When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust.

The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.

Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.

An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.

Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world.

Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.

It's always illegitimate for white men to organize as white men.

Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.

Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.

The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.