Quotes About Justice

If you act in the name of conscience you are stronger than any government in the world.

The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.

The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.

When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that's tyranny.

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.