Quotes About Justice

Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.

The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

The law is an opinion with a gun.

I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.

American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal substances are political prisoners

I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.