Quotes About Justice

Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.

Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.

A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

One may not condemn a man for succeeding financially because he knows how. Neither may one with justice take away for a man what he has fairly earned, to give to men of less ability.

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

It is through generous giving, that we affirm before the world, our nation's faith in the inalienable right of every man, to a life of freedom, justice and security.

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.

Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.

God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; ... The wrong shall fail, The right prevail, With peace on earth, good will to men.

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?