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Quotes About Justice

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.
~ James Madison
There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.
~ Ricardo Lagos
Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation.
~ Giacomo Matteotti
I stand with the Navajo Nation and call upon the U.S. Government to do what is right and clean up this mess.
~ Erin Brockovich
Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane.
~ Sean Lennon
It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.
~ Glenn Greenwald
It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.
~ Stewart Udall
Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the former of the great principles known as the Rule of Law.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
Words don't change children's lives. Real action by the government and equality would.
~ Cindy Blackstock
There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.
~ Alexander Hamilton
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
~ Voltaire
It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice
~ Thomas Jefferson
A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.
~ Alf Landon
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.
~ Richard Stallman
The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.
~ Anton Chekhov
My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.
~ Shirin Ebadi
An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
~ James Dean
No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.
~ Rose Pastor Stokes
Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.
~ Ron Paul
The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
~ Alexander Pope
I think it is in the interest of the people of [Serbia] that no one, not even the government, can get away with the crime, whoever the victim.
~ Michael Kirby
I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.
~ Frederick Douglass