justice Quotes

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and... ...

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a... ...

No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures therefore should be taken which will give them lasting prosperity; and as this is equally... ...

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall... ...

It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of... ...