Quotes About Justice

Came a time when people of conscience had to take a stand.

The population had a right to expect that people with a gun and a badge would also have self-control.

The deaths of those young women changed Canadian society. It brought about much stricter gun legislation (though it could be tougher still) and forced a long, hard, often painful examination of equal rights. Of human rights.

God, give us Peace! not such as lulls to sleep, But sword on thigh and brow with purpose knit!

Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes -- they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.

If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave? If ye do not feel the chain, When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed?

Here shall a realm rise Mighty in manhood; Justice and Mercy Here set a stronghold Safe without spear.

Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

To maintain power requires justice and intelligence as well as force.

how do we pass from chaos to "cosmos": from disorder to the perfect and just regimen of a magnificently ordained natural dispensation upon which the sun gently shines?

A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.

Victrix causa deis placuit sed victa Catoni

I come to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.

He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.