Quotes About Justice

I have always loved the law. It is the very foundation of our great country. It's the exceptional foundation of America.

has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.

Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.

My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.

An important function of the Supreme Court is to provide guidance, .. As a lower court judge, I appreciate clear guidance from the Supreme Court.

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

Justice is happiness according to virtue.

There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

Reason shows me that if my happiness is desirable and good, the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable.

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

I think you can get happiness through making a real difference in other people's lives by setting out to make other people's lives better and setting out to right the wrongs in the world.

We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.

There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.

Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.

Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.

The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.

It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.