Justice Quotes
What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.
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"To ostracize a tyrant is to teach him a lesson in humility."Cleisthenes
"The ostracism of the corrupt is the salvation of the honest."Cleisthenes
"The best laws are those that make men wish to obey them."Lycurgus
"To conquer is easy; to rule justly is the true challenge."Scipio Africanus
"Justice delayed is strategy postponed; justice denied is defeat assured."Scipio Africanus
"Justice must be blind to wealth and power, or it ceases to be justice."Scipio Africanus
"The laws keep us safe; without them, we are lost."Solon
"Justice delayed is justice denied."Solon
"Justice without mercy is tyranny."Solon
"My enemies called me tyrant. My builders called me visionary. History will decide."Tarquin the Proud
"Justice is whatever I decree it to be. This is why I decreed such magnificent justice."Tarquin the Proud
"I am condemned not for my actions, but for the envy they provoked."Alcibiades
"A just society is built brick by brick through honest dealing"Romulus
"Justice delayed is justice that poisons the well it comes from"Romulus
"Justice delayed is justice denied."Miltiades
"The foundation of justice is good faith."Miltiades
"The greatest crime is the denial of justice."Miltiades
"The unjust law is the heaviest burden a just man must bear."Lycurgus
"A citizen who takes more than he gives is a thief from the commonwealth."Lycurgus
"The test of a law is not whether it is popular, but whether it is just."Lycurgus
"The law must bind the powerful as tightly as it binds the weak."Lycurgus
"The purpose of justice is not revenge, but the restoration of order."Lycurgus
"The law that protects the rich but not the poor is no law at all."Lycurgus
"The foundation of justice is the equal application of the law to all."Lycurgus
"The foundation of justice is good faith."Solon
"To rule justly is to plant seeds that shall bear fruit for centuries."Solon
"A just law needs no enforcement; it enforces itself through consent."Solon
"A society of laws is a society of free men."Solon
"The state exists to serve justice, not to accumulate wealth or dominion."Cincinnatus
"Justice delayed is not merely justice denied; it is justice corrupted."Cincinnatus