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Quotes About Justice

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?
~ Jupiter Hammon
A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.
~ Kent McCord
You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it'll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.
~ Laurie Anderson
Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
~ Learned Hand
God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.
~ Sophocles
All men are created equal.
~ Thomas Jefferson
All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
~ Thomas Jefferson
An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.
~ Thomas Paine
A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.
~ Thomas Paine
When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.
~ Veronica Franco
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
~ William Shakespeare
We ask to be recognized as men.
~ Chief Joseph
We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
~ Chinua Achebe
Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.
~ Christopher Love
I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.
~ Clement Freud
Men are not sent to hell because of being murderers or liars, they are sent to hell because they are unrighteous.
~ David Jeremiah
Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.
~ Edward Coke
I always loved Ponch, man. It was so much fun to be him, to put on my duds and get on that bike and bust the bad guys and help out the kids. And get the babes.
~ Erik Estrada
Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!
~ Ernestine Rose
If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.
~ Felix Frankfurter
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.
~ Gerrit Smith