Justice Quotes

"The people need not ask for justice; they need only demand it."

"Those who defend injustice are more dangerous than those who commit it."

"To love humanity is to hate the systems that dehumanize it."

"The preservation of the rights of man is the true object of good government."

"We should not regard equality as merely a political principle but as a moral imperative."

"We must build a society where talent and virtue, not birth, determine a man's place."

"I believe that every man is entitled to the fruits of his own labor."

"I believe that the measure of a civilization is how it treats its most vulnerable members."

"The preservation of human dignity must be the foundation of all laws and institutions."

"The people are not to be blamed; they are the victims of the conspiracy."

"I wish not a few of the most wealthy and influential of the land should hoard up all the property."

"It is the duty of every patriot to use all constitutional methods to prevent this tyranny."

"The road to tyranny is paved with small surrenders of rights."

"Justice requires that we treat all men as equals."

"Silence in the face of injustice is a choice to remain enslaved."

"To know the hour of danger and do nothing is to be complicit in tyranny."

"Those who build empires of tyranny tremble at the hoofbeats of the righteous."

"To know and not warn is to be complicit in the tragedy that follows."

"The noise of hoofbeats in the night is the sound of conscience made manifest."

"To witness injustice and remain silent is to become its accomplice."

"The rights of persons and the rights of property have never been found incompatible."

"No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause."

"It is a principle incorporated into the settled doctrine of American jurisprudence that the constitution is a law for rulers and people alike."

"In republics, the great danger is that the majority may oppress the minority."

"The stability of possession, its accession by labor, and its transfer by consent are the three laws of justice and property."

"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is secure."

"The law, in all vicissitudes of government, fluctuations of the passions, or flights of enthusiasm, will always preserve its character of virtue."

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands is the very definition of tyranny."

"I will insist, the people ought to have a constitutional check upon the government."

"The law is the only true sanctuary that refuge gives."