Quotes About Justice

Mercy but murders pardoning those who kill.

But oh, my brothers, black folk ain't never goin' to be led from bondage without they has pride! Black folk ain't goin' to be free, they ain't goin' to have no spoonbread an' sweet cider less'n they studies to love they own selves. Only then will the first be last, and the last first.

I would give almost anything I own to be alive when that day comes, as it surely will, when Harry Byrd sees negro men and women sitting not at the back of the bus but riding free and equal through all the streets of Virginia. For that I would willingly be called that hateful epithet "nigger lover," which I am sure I am called already in private by many

William W. Johnstone

Sixkiller, U.S. Marshal

I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

We seek no treasure, we seek no territorial gains, we seek only the right of man to be free; we seek his rights to worship his god, to lead his life in his own way, secure from persecution. As the humble labourer returned from his work when the day is don, and sees the smoke curling upwards from his cottage home in the serene evening sky, we wish him to know that no rat-a-tat of the secret police upon his door will disturb his leisure or interrupt his rest.

They have insisted so much on Equality, that there is no room left for Liberty and little for Fraternity.

Almost under his breath he said, "First threatenings an' now bribery. Bribery as I'm alive! Money for Judas, I reckon they'm thinking. Stand up in a court o' law agin an old friend. Worse'n Judas, for he did it on the quiet, like. An' for what? Thirty bits o' silver. An' I'm reckoning they wouldn't

They'd want for me to do un for twenty or ten. Tedn reasonable, tedn proper, tedn Christian, tedn right." There was a short pause. "Ten guineas down and ten guineas after the trial," said Garth. "Ha!" said Jud. "Just what I thought.

These savage laws," Ross said, controlling his temper with the greatest difficulty. "These savage laws that you interpret without charity send a man to prison for feeding his children when they are hungry, for finding food where he can when it's denied him to earn it. The book from which you take your teaching, Dr. Halse, says that man shall not live by bread alone. These days you're asking men to live without even bread.

Tedn't fair. Tedn't just. Tedn't British.

Tedn sense, tedn reasonable, tedn right, tedn proper, tedn true!

the lord lieutenant was the king's man and from him came all things great and small. Or, to be explicit, what came from him were appointments to be justice of the peace, and to be a JP meant to be the possessor of undisputed local power. For good or ill the JPs ruled, unchecked by Privy Council or the public purse.

Tutti gli esseri umani nascevano uguali e i privilegi erano una creazione dell'uomo.

Tedn't right. Tedn't tidy. Tedn't fair. Tedn't clean. Tedn't good enough.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

The worst quarrels only arise when both sides are equally in the right and in the wrong.

A man may be poor; he may have nothing at all except his labour to sell; he may be a manual worker for a weekly wage, but in a free commonwealth he must enjoy as good a right as any lord, or prelate, or capitalist in the country to the integrity of his own political convictions.

All comes out even at the end of the day, and all will come out yet more even when all the days are ended.

A society is measured by the treatment of its prisoners

The grass soon grows over a battlefield but never over a scaffold.

Nemesis personifies "the Goddess of Retribution, who brings down all immoderate good fortune, checks the presumption that attends it, …and is the punisher of extraordinary crimes".36