Justice Quotes

"Justice delayed is justice denied."

"To compromise with evil is to become complicit in it."

"The strongest nations are built on justice, not conquest."

"The true measure of a nation is how it treats its poorest citizens."

"I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in stamping out this dreadful institution of slavery."

"Justice delayed is justice denied; we must act swiftly to defend the innocent."

"A just society is one that protects its weakest members."

"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."

"The human capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but human inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."

"The privilege of any man may be the right of every man; and upon this principle alone can universal freedom be established."

"The very principle of justice I proceed to establish."

"The demand for justice is the demand of one human being upon another, for the observance of some custom or some rule."

"It is an error to confess that one's conception of justice differs from that of the community."

"The privilege of any man can be extended to any other man by the principle of equal rights."

"All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes."

"The best security against revolution is in rendering justice speedily."

"We cannot build a nation on the foundation of injustice."

"A society is judged by the way it treats those who can do it no good."

"We are bound to advance the cause of human dignity wherever it is threatened."

"The role of government is to serve as the guardian of order and justice."

"The foundation of all law is the understanding that no one is above justice."

"Justice must be swift and certain, or it becomes merely tyranny."

"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them."

"Society has had ample experience that equality does not diminish personal excellence."

"The foundation of all justice is good faith; without it, nothing else matters."

"The only thing that stands between us and tyranny is the rule of law."

"We cannot indict a whole people."

"The cold neutrality of an impartial judge."

"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society."

"Whilst shame keeps its place in the minds of men, certain extremities of rigour cannot anyway be submitted to without destruction to the Empire that uses them."