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Quotes About Justice

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.
~ Noam Chomsky
I think cameras should be in the courtroom, but they need to be managed properly. You need a judge to hold the line.
~ Marcia Clark
Without properly functioning civil courts, there is no guarantee that innovative entrepreneurs can claim the rewards of their ideas.
~ Angus Deaton
Access to justice is a fundamental part of a properly functioning democracy.
~ Kenneth Clarke
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
~ John Jay
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
~ William Penn
I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.
~ Curt Flood
I'm entitled to collect my fair share of community property without being called names.
~ Gloria Allred
It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.
~ Ralph Chaplin
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.
~ Lysander Spooner
Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.
~ George Will
Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged.
~ Paul Watson
Satisfying a profit motive must never be the reason for law enforcement, and it certainly must never be allowed to support the seizure of personal property by those who we trust to protect and defend our nation and our Constitution.
~ Tony Cardenas
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
~ Potter Stewart
If you really want to help the rest of the world, what you've got to do is encourage free markets, private property rights and the strong rule of law and get rid of the dictators in a lot of these countries.
~ Dave Brat
A lot of prophets have gone to jail.
~ Tommy Chong
Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner.
~ Roger Mahony
I would be open to a proposal that would have some minimum tax level for everyone.
~ Tim Kaine
We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families.
~ Denis Kearney
Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.
~ George Michael
In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works a full time job should have to live in poverty. That's a fundamental value proposition, an article of faith in our country that I know an overwhelming majority of Americans agree on.
~ Tom Perez
After Obama was elected president, the same day Proposition 8 was passed, there was this fire in our belly.
~ Gavin Creel