Quotes About Justice

The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country;

Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but universal

It is, perhaps, impossible to proportion exactly the price of labor to the profits it produces; and it will also be said, as an apology for the injustice, that were a workman to receive an increase of wages daily he would not save it against old age, nor be much better for it in the interim.

There are injuries which nature cannot forgive; she would cease to be nature if she did.

Immortal power is not a human right, and therefore cannot be a right of Parliament.

Let it then be heard, and let man learn to feel that the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity, and not on conquest.

The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

Wer seine eigene Freiheit sichern will, muss selbst seinen Feind vor Unterdrückung schützen.

I believe in the equality of man, and I believe that religious duties consist of doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

It is not because the right principles have been violated, that they are to be abandoned.

for no man expects to be loved himself for his crime or for his enmity.

It is a duty incumbent on every true deist, that he vindicates the moral justice of God against the calumnies of the Bible.

in order that nothing may pass into a law but what is satisfactorily just, not less than three fifths of the Congress to be called a majority. He that will promote discord, under a government so equally formed as this, would have joined Lucifer in his revolt.

that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem.

if the writers of these four books had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi, (for it is of the nature of an alibi that is here attempted to be proved, namely, the absence of a dead body by supernatural means,) and had they given their evidence in the same contradictory manner as it is here given, they would have been in danger of having their ears cropt for perjury

That in which every man is interested, is every man's duty to support. And any burden which falls equally on all men, and from which every man is to receive an equal benefit, is consistent with the most perfect ideas of liberty.

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority, perfect equality affords no temptation.

The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.

It is not because right principles have been violated, that they are to be abandoned.

On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the rights of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly, the mode of conducting it after it is declared.

Morality is injured by prescribing to it duties that, in the first place, are impossible to be performed, and if they could be would be productive of evil; or, as before said, be premiums for crime. The maxim of doing as we would be done unto does not include this strange doctrine of loving enemies; for no man expects to be loved himself for his crime or for his enmity.

Thomas Paine