Quotes About Justice

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

Some guard these traitors to the block of death, Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath.

Conscience is a thousand swords.

Some to the common pulpits, and cry out,"Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!"

Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear;Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just,And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel,Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

And do as adversaries do in law,Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Mine enemy's dog,Though he had bit me, should have stood that nightAgainst my fire.

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judgeThat no king can corrupt.

There live not three good men unhanged in England, and one of them is fat and grows old.

Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

The bloody book of lawYou shall yourself read in the bitter letterAfter your own sense.

Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

For 'tis the sport to have the enginerHoist with his own petar.

For we may pity, though not pardon thee.

Report me and my cause aright.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try.

That would hang us, every mother's son.