Quotes About Justice

Criminal means once tolerated are soon preferred.

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor.

In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

The only thing for evil to triumph in the world is for good men not to act.

The restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights.

The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.

It only needs a good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.

The restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are both to be reckoned among their rights.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive.

Who but a tyrant (a name expressive of every thing which can vitiate and degrade human nature) could think of seizing on the property of men, unaccused, unheard, untried, by whole descriptions, by hundreds and thousands together?

lie together in one short sentence: namely, that we have acquired a right 1. To choose our own governors. 2. To cashier them for misconduct. 3. To frame a government for ourselves. This new, and hitherto unheard-of bill of rights

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) Irish orator, philosopher, & politician

All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

None of us has the right to assess the value of a human existence. All must be held valuable, or none. The death of Christ and the death of Socrates, Fen added dryly, suggest that our judgements are scarcely infallible...And the evil of Nazism lay precisely in this, that a group of men began to differentiate between the value of their fellow-beings, and to act on their conclusions. It isn't a habit which I, for one, would like to encourage.

It is idle to hope for the enforcement of a law where nineteen-twentieths of the people do not believe in the justice of its provisions.

Sooner or later, unless there is a readjustment, there will come a riotous, wicked, murderous day of atonement.

He castigates his habitual targets, "the dull, the feeble, and the timid good," and proclaims himself a strong man, careless of class, color, or party politics. "If I find a public servant who is dishonest, I will chop his head off if he is the highest Republican in this municipality!

The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution.

To be neutral13 between right and wrong is to serve wrong.

Any black or red man who could win admission to "the fellowship of the doers" was superior to the white man who failed. Roosevelt's long-term dream was nothing more or less than the general, steady, self-betterment of the multicolored American nation.

the most dangerous members of the criminal class—the criminals of great wealth.

This isn't a banana republic. You can't pull strings in America, pay off an official, lean on your cousin. It's not like France or Spain – those banana republics.