Quotes About Justice

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

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

O God! that bread should be so dear,And flesh and blood so cheap!

so bear in mind that majorities, especially respectable ones, are nine times out of ten in the wrong; and that if you see man or boy striving earnestly on the weak side, however wrong-headed or blundering he may be, you are not to go and join the cry against him. If you can't join him and help him, and make him wiser, at any rate remember that he has found something in the world which he will fight and suffer for....

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

How, frequently, some murder'd man appear'd, To tell his wife and children who had done it...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

The execution of the laws is more important than the making them

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

We must do our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences

Freedom of the person under the protection of habeas corpus. I deem one of the essential principles of our government.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

[On slavery:] We have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Whensoever hostile aggressions… require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.

I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures?