Quotes About Justice

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.

Individual believers are not to usurp the role of civil government and judge people who are offensive.

Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.

A government is one that thinks and hears the voice of the poor. A government must live for the poor.

An initiative was essentially led by civil society because the policy of the government was that Africans must not be taught to graze in pastures which were reserved for the main white group.

The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.

Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for?

The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.

Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.

At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the limited capacity of government to get things right.

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality

A government of laws, and not of men

It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong

Enforcement isn't about big government or small government. It's about whether government works and who it works for.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

I know the police cause you troubleThey cause trouble everywhereBut when you die and go to heavenYou find no policeman there

Every nation has the government that it deserves.