Justice Quotes

"True equality exists only where justice is impartial."

"Every class in the community has an interest in economic progress; yet the distribution of the gain is a matter of fierce and continuing contention."

"Efficiency and justice are often in direct conflict; a price must be paid for moral progress."

"Moral progress and economic efficiency are two different things entirely."

"The distribution of income and wealth is the fundamental problem of all economic systems."

"The most absurd notion is that a society can prosper if the majority has the power to rob the minority."

"A just society is one in which each person receives the fruits of their own labor."

"A man's labor is his property, and he has the right to exchange it for whatever he can get in return."

"A just wage is not determined by law but by the willingness of both employer and employee to agree."

"Justice without mercy is tyranny."

"The great achievement of Western civilization has been the rule of law."

"Altruism directed by force is merely coercion."

"True equality under law requires limiting government power."

"Voluntary exchange benefits both parties; coerced exchange benefits only the coercer."

"Individual rights are not gifts from government; they are constraints on government power."

"Property rights are not privileges granted by society; they are fundamental to society."

"It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."

"All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil."

"It is the interest of the community to punish offences, in order to prevent the commission of greater offences."

"Torture, when methodized and regulated by law, may be rendered a more certain and regular instrument of punishment than the more violent expedients of the rack and the wheel."

"The greatest evil is disorder; the greatest good is order under law."

"The essence of law is not command but care."

"As to the evil of crime itself, all the evil of punishment is less than the evil which it prevents."

"The test of the morality of a law is its tendency to increase happiness."

"The proper subject of legislation is to create happiness for all; the proper object is to prevent misery."

"To do the greatest good to the greatest number is the true measure of justice."

"The foundation of justice is benevolence."

"The most humane punishment is that which most certainly prevents the commission of the offense."

"The purpose of punishment is not vengeance but prevention."

"The greatest curse is to be removed from the sight and protection of the law."