Justice Quotes

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.
Edmund Burke
Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.
Agesilaus the Second
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.
Miguel De Cervantes
Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis
J. r. r. tolkien - many that live deserve death. and some die that...
Albert einstein, the world as i see it (autobio, 1934) - the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an...
Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
George W. Bush, September 20, 2001
George w. bush - whether we bring our enemies to justice, or...
Justice Marshall has made his decision. Let him enforce it.
Andrew Jackson
The sword of justice has no scabbard.
Antione De Riveral
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.
Pope Pius XI
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
George Goethals
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
George Washington
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
Aristotle
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills.
Kahlil Gibran
Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.
Domitus Ulpian
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Lenny Bruce
Liberty, equality - Bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
Henri Frdric Amiel
Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.
Bruce Cockburn
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
Aristotle
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia - Denouncing the evils of slavery
Without justice courage is weak.
Benjamin Franklin
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.
Marcel Ayme
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
Demosthenes
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Justice is incidental to law and order.
J. Edgar Hoove
Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
Theodore Roosevelt, 1916 (quoted in the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial CD - ROM)
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.
Frederick Douglas
Justice delayed, is justice denied.
William Gladstone
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
Albert Einstein
Justice is the truth in action.
Jeseph Joubert
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
Francis Bacon
The triumph of justice is the only peace.
Robert Green Ingersoll
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments as a nation have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.
George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech in Syracuse, NY Sep. 29, 1936
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson