Quotes About Justice

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

If a ruler can get rid of private crookedness and promote the public law, his people will become secure, and his state will become well ordered.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

Being silent and doing nothing is never the right answer. What happens in one state can happen in another.

What Dred Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free state of Illinois, every other master may lawfully do with any other one, or 1,000 slaves, in Illinois, or in any other free state.

Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.

Bill Barr has gutted the Justice Department. Mike Pompeo has gutted the State Department. We are in serious danger here.

I am not against the state government. I am pro-people... Whenever the government goes wrong, I will speak up for the people of the state.

The state government should devote special attention to safeguard their rights. The rights of the Dalits in Vedaranyam, Karur and other parts of Tamil Nadu should be protected by the state government.

You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in Genesis chapter nine... God ordains the death penalty!

The Freedom Riders literally put their lives and limbs on the line in order to bring about an America that lives up to its own stated ideals. They are nothing short of American patriots, and honoring them more than 60 years after their historic acts is the least we can do.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

I don't believe in blanket statements on race.

I do think it's a real problem when we have 'Black Lives Matter' making statements that are really radical, that are absolutely false.

Almost no one refuses the police when confronted on the street or in a train or plane or train station. When you're confronted by the police, very few - either the foolish or the very brave - will refuse consent when confronted by the police.

If any one idea can justly be called the American idea, it is that a child's circumstances at birth should not determine the station in life that that child will occupy as an adult.

In India, going to a police station is not the most pleasant experience.

The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.