Quotes About Justice

The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.

I think in some instances that the death penalty is required.

Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged.

I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself.

The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.

Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.

The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

I don't think there's anything immature about fighting for the underdog and fighting for people who don't have a voice. I have an intense desire to protect people who can't protect themselves.

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.

I desire to know wherefore I am banished?

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied.

Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.

Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.

I've always had a desire to play a cop or FBI agent.