Justice Quotes

"Observe good faith and justice towards all nations."

"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; secondly to liberty; thirdly to property."

"It is not the office of a good magistrate to punish offenders for the sake of punishment, but for the sake of prevention."

"A well-ordered society requires both law and virtue in its citizens."

"The measure of a society is how it treats those with the least power."

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to liberty everywhere."

"The advancement of human rights is the great work of every generation."

"The pursuit of justice requires patience, wisdom, and unwavering resolve."

"The purpose of a good government is to protect the weak from the strong."

"The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged by all."

"Human rights can only come from human duties."

"The protection of these rights is the object of government."

"The will of the majority must be tempered with justice."

"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint."

"The elevation of the few upon the ruins of the many has ever been the project of the ambitious and the vicious."

"Inequality is the source of all corruption."

"We should begin by setting conscience aside, for conscience always revolts at cruelty and torture."

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, the moment anarchy begins."

"Property rights are sacred duties to the community."

"The poor have sometimes to be hard pressed to live at all."

"I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood."

"I believe that to have interfered as I have done is right."

"Establish judgment and righteousness upon the earth."

"Peace on one side but never peace with injustice."

"Righteousness exalts a nation."

"The day of reckoning has come."

"Injustice cannot stand forever."

"I am a servant of justice."

"I speak for those who cannot speak."