Justice Quotes
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.George Bancroft
An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.Samuel Johnson
Compassion is no substitute for justice.Rush Limbaugh
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.Sallust
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.Pope Pius XI
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D. C., 1865
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Justice is incidental to law and order.J. Edgar Hoove
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.Georges Clemenceau
Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.Arcesilaus
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.Miguel De Cervantes
Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.Bruce Cockburn
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.Lenny Bruce
Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.Thucyclides
Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.Edmund Burke
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.Clarence Darrow
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.Martin Luther King Jr.
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.Aristotle
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.J. R. R. Tolkien
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.George Washington
Liberty, equality - Bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.Edmund Burke
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.Elizabeth II
Without justice courage is weak.Benjamin Franklin
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...Samuel Smiles
Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.Jeanne - Marie Roland
Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. Let justice be done, though the world perish.Ferdinand I
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co - Operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.Albert Camus
An attempt is already underway to revise history - To leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break - In.John J. Sirica
If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice.Pan Ku
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.Benjamin Franklin
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.Benjamin Disraeli
