Quotes About Justice

Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.

It could not be denied, however, that he set a high value upon justice, for he sold it at its weight in gold.

Whatever may be advanced by philosophers to the contrary, I am of opinion that, as to nations, the old maxim, that "honesty is the best policy," is a sheer and ruinous mistake. It might have answered well enough in the honest times when it was made; but, in these degenerate days, if a nation pretends to rely merely upon the justice of its dealings, it will fare something like the honest man who fell among thieves, and found his honesty a poor protection against bad company. Such

You are never wrong doing the right thing.

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.

The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

The Constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.

One on God's side is a majority.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

No man has a right in America to treat any other man tolerantly, for tolerance is the assumption of superiority.

whether or not people get the gods that they deserve, they tend to get the gods (and demons) that their animals deserve—

I'm afraid truth isn't the only thing that matters in law, Suzannah. And out in the real world, it doesn't matter at all.

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.

A woman's body, a woman's right" applies not only to abortion, but to every peaceful activity a woman engages in. The law should come into play only when a woman initiates force or has force initiated against her.

The issue that united the anti-slavery and feminist movements was a demand for the right of every human being to control his or her own body and property. This same principle is the core of individualist feminism today.