Quotes About Justice

Rather a thousand times the county jail than to lie under this marble figure with wings and this granite pedestal bearing the words "pro patria." What do they mean anyway?

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

Law is not justice and a trial is not a scientific inquiry into truth. A trial is the resolution of a dispute.

With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation.

Het op eigen gezag beslechten van geschillen mocht dan in vroegere tijden gangbaar zijn, thans behoort het thuis bij de rechterlijke macht.

A race lacking respect for women would never advance socially or politically.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to the good.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.

The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

Bad law is the worst sort of tyranny.

There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity -- the law of nature, and of nations.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.