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Quotes About Justice

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws
~ Voltaire
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
~ Voltaire
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
~ Voltaire
He who is merely just is severe.
~ Voltaire
The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
~ Voltaire
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
~ Voltaire
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
~ Voltaire
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
~ Voltaire
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
~ Voltaire
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
~ Voltaire
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
~ Voltaire
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
~ Voltaire
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
~ Voltaire
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
~ Voltaire
In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
~ Voltaire
Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
~ Voltaire
Next time you want to get back at another man, stab him in the heart. Don't piss in his rice.
~ Unknown
That's how life is. Some dogs get treats for doing almost nothing, and some dogs are good dogs and get no treats at all.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Ello nodded "I told him. Plus Garrett threw a plastic tomahawk into his room and I think it hit him." "Seems like sufficient notice." Hunter observed. "It was from the box of Thanksgiving decorations" Ello continued. "The tomahawk symbolizes our oppression of Native peoples. If there were any justice, we would all go back where we came from and leave the country to the people who were here first." "Okay" Hunter agreed "We'll leave after dinner." Ello gave him a dark fuming glare as he stood up.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
~ W. C. Fields
Here is my creed: I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs it by his providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is in doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion. --Benjamin Franklin
~ Unknown
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
~ Unknown
A free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of men.
~ Unknown
What they wanted to establish was a system of "People's Law," where the government is kept under the control of the people and political power is maintained at the balanced center with enough government to maintain security, justice, and good order, but not enough government to abuse the people. The
~ Unknown