justice Quotes

In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler... ...

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

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.

We must become just be doing just acts.

Law is mind without reason.

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.

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... ...

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

There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form... ...