Quotes About Justice

Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?

If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.

Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.

In recent years... forces have developed in our government over which we have no control, and these forces have an authoritarian approach to justice - meaning, they tell you what justice is.

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.

People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.

The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.

Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government

A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.

Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last, of liberty.

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.

Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are treating their people.

What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some