Justice Quotes

"Justice delayed is a wound that never quite heals."

"Justice without mercy is tyranny."

"Justice delayed is justice denied."

"The measure of civilization is how it treats its vulnerable."

"The duty of a magistrate is to preserve the peace of society."

"Justice is the firmest pillar of government."

"Crime and punishment grow out of one stem."

"I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed."

"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."

"Torture is a proof of the law's uncertainty."

"We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."

"Envy will merit as its shade pursue."

"Justice is not the law; the law is but the servant of justice."

"Justice pursued without mercy becomes merely another form of cruelty."

"Justice without compassion hardens into tyranny."

"The greatest evil that can befall us is indifference to our obligations."

"I am not inclined to forgive those who betray a trust."

"Justice delayed is justice denied to those who suffer."

"Justice delayed loses its power to heal and reform."

"The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger."

"Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex."

"The laws respecting women do not in general come under the description of laws of justice."

"Asserting the rights which women in common with men ought to contend for, I have not attempted to extenuate their faults."

"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world."

"A woman without virtue would be abhorrent to all the world, but a man without virtue is not so generally despised."

"The preposterous assumption that a husband has a right to the personal use of his wife is a barbarous principle."

"The divine right of kings and husbands alike has been contested by reason and justice."

"The price of enslaving women is the corruption of mankind."

"I plead for my sex, not for myself."

"The inequality of women has been the source of half the wretchedness of the world."