Quotes About Justice

man can never be obliged in conscience to submit to any power, unless he can be satisfied who is the person who has a right to exercise that power over him.

the case of land and water, where there is enough of both, is perfectly the same.

Children, I confess, are not born in this state of equality, though they are born to it.

Right and conveniency went together; for as a man had a right to all he could employ his labour upon, so he had no temptation to labour for more than he could make use of. This left no room for controversy about the title, nor for encroachment on the right of others ; what portion a man carved to himself was easily seen: and it was useless, as well as dishonest, to carve himself too much, or take more than he needed.

nadie puede transferir a otro más poder del que encerrare en sí, y nadie sobre sí goza de poder absoluto y arbitrario, ni sobre los demás tampoco, que le permitiere destruir su vida o arrebatar la vida o propiedad ajena.

govern his actions according to the dictates of the law of reason which God had implanted in him.

nobody can be under a law which is not promulgated to him;

that, however it may be mistaken, the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom:

where there is no law, there is no freedom;

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

God left all men free; Nature has made no man a slave.' (Anonymous, in Rhetorica Aristotelis, CAG XXI: 2, p. 74 Rabe) This, remarkably, is the only surviving testimony to what must have been a fairly widespread sophistic thesis, that slavery is contrary to nature (referred to disapprovingly by Aristotle at Politics 1253b20ff.).

There was not enough pain in Akhil's body to pay for all of this.

Instead of blaming us, find your true enemy. And, where the offence is, there let the great axe fall.

A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.' 'It's just not right,' said Kevin stubbornly. 'Maybe not. But neither's your way of looking at it. There doesn't have to be a right side and a wrong side. both sides can be right, or both sides can be wrong...

We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding.

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.

Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.

When a reporter asked me the next day if I had something to say to the terrorists responsible for the mass murders of the day before, I answered, "We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won't.

In America, we have always believed that if the day was a disappointment, we would win tomorrow. That's what John Lewis believed when he marched across this bridge.

I don't mind a good fight. For reasons known only to God, I've had quite a few tough ones in my life. But I learned an important lesson along the way: In the end, it matters less that you can fight. What you fight for is the real test.

The cruelty of our enemies doesn't absolve us of this duty. This was never about them. It was about us.

No just cause is futile, even if it's lost, if it helps make the future better than the past.