Justice Quotes
Justice Marshall has made his decision. Let him enforce it.Andrew Jackson
Justice delayed is justice denied.William Gladstone
Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.Robert Francis Kennedy
The sword of justice has no scabbard.Antione De Riveral
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.Jeanne - Marie Roland
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
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the indifference of those who should have known better the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph.Haile Selassie
There is no such thing as justice - - In or out of court.Clarence Darrow
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.Clarence Darrow
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Compassion is no substitute for justice.Rush Limbaugh
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Barry Goldwate
Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.Aristotle
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.John Dewey
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors.... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.Claude Adrien Helvetius
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.Edmund Burke
When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.Daniel Defoe
Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.Italian Prove
In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his 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 law.Martin Luther King, Jr.
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
Justice delayed, is justice denied.William Gladstone
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)
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
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.Dorothy Thompson
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
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.Seneca
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
Reason and Justice tell me that there is more love of man in electricity and steam, than in chastity and refusal to eat meat.Chekov of Tolstoy
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.Alexander Hamilton
Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.Thomas Fulle
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
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.Thomas H. Huxley
Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.Ann Landers
The dead cannot cry out for justice it is a duty of the living to do so for them.Lois McMaster Bujold
The death - Knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.Theodore Roosevelt, Labor Day speech at Syracuse, NY, Sept 7, 1903 ("Theodore Rex" - Edmund Morris)
