Quotes About Justice

When it comes to persecuting people for pot, there's a long list of horror stories. The thing that gets me is, why? Why waste precious law enforcement resources on bullshit? I

Wo Hunger herrscht, ist auf die Dauer kein Friede." ("Where there is hunger, there cannot be lasting peace.) Speech before the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 1973

The happiest people I've ever met, regardless of their profession, their social standing, or their economic status, are people that are fully engaged in the world around them. The most fulfilled people are the ones who get up every morning and stand for something larger than themselves. They are the people who care about others, who will extend a helping hand to someone in need or will speak up about an injustice when they see it.

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

The case is closed, Mr. Poldark. You will kindly step down." "Otherwise," said Dr. Halse, "we will have you committed for contempt of court." Ross bowed slightly. "I can only assure you, sir, that such a committal would be a reading of my inmost thoughts.

For the fire consumes all but the arsonist.

Justice is the armed defense of innocent liberty.

Mas o que é a loucura? O que vale a vida de uma pessoa? Porventura a tua tem mais valor que a minha ou a minha menos que a do teu amigo? - Será que tens mais direito à vida que o homem de que salvei?

There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by force that it is right

1. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.2. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas….5. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims.

Right is more precious than peace.

The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name…. We must be impartial in thought as well as in action.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

It must be a peace without victory…. Only a peace between equals can last.

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

Only peace between equals can last.

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. But we shall not be poor if we love liberty, because the nation that loves liberty truly sets every man free to do his best and be his best.

If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.