Quotes About Justice

Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.

[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves.

A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government.

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way.

My heart is bursting at the thought of Al-Mahdi coming to set up a universal government of peace.

When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.

One law for the lion and ox is oppression.

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.

You do not give preferred deals and dole out favors, lucrative favors, and government partnerships and weapons deals to your clients.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.

A Supreme Court decision does not establish a "supreme law of the land" that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore.

American families cannot compete with billionaires. Our involvement in government should not be dependent on our bank account balances

I'm glad my name stands for the principle that everyone has the right to force the government to justify his imprisonment.

No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.

Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.

I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves.