Quotes About Justice

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity.

For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

All men are born equally free.

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'

The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.

No one Shall hunger: Man shall spend equally. Our goal which we compel: Man shall be man.

The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.

A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.

Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private.

Law never made men a whit more just.

The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.