Quotes About Justice

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

I never killed a man I didn't have to.

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness

Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.

Everybody's got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights. What you don't got is power.

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.

All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream!

A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.

I never killed a man who didn't need it.

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.

Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please.

This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions

Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

I hate to see a young man get ahead on the basis of a famous family name.

Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

The people I have no feeling for are professional killers. But I count that man no worse than a governor who won't commute a death sentence because it's unpolitical.

The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.