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Quotes About Justice

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.
~ Jimmy Carter
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
~ John Winthrop
Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.
~ Nelson Mandela
I like honesty and fair play.
~ Marcus Garvey
The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o' men, for a' that!
~ Robert Burns
The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
~ William Safire
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
~ Charles Peguy
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
~ Winston Churchill
It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.
~ Socrates
Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
~ Michel de Montaigne
To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.
~ Lucan
Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.
~ Charles Kennedy
An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on).
~ Paul Feyerabend
Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.
~ William Shakespeare
For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.
~ Henry George
It's honest to admit you'll kill someone because you hate them.
~ Fuyumi Soryo
Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.
~ George Washington
Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted in the freedom of all.
~ Emma Goldman
A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there.
~ William Cowper
We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
~ William Jennings Bryan
If human society loses the value of justice, compassion, and honesty, the next generation will face greater difficulties and more suffering.
~ Auliq-Ice
A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
~ Ida B. Wells