Justice Quotes
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.George W. Bush, September 20, 2001
An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.Samuel Johnson
Justice delayed, is justice denied.William Gladstone
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
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.Clarence Darrow
Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.William Hazlitt
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.W. H. Auden
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D. C., 1865
Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.Arcesilaus
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.Malcolm De Chazal
A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.Albert Camus
Comedy is allied to justice.Aristophenes
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co - Operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
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
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.Benjamin Franklin
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.Elizabeth II
Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.Plato
Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.Bill Chickering
Each time someone 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.Robert F. Kennedy
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love".
I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.Thomas Jefferson
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
In America, one gets as much justice as one can afford. 1966.Charles Stanton
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Barry Goldwate
Justice delayed is justice denied.William Gladstone
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.George Goethals