A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal – that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

The assertion that ‚all men are created equal‘ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

You’re innocent until proven guilty.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

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?

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

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

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Racism and sexism, misogyny and homophobia, they’re so visible. They’re out in the open. When they’re visible, it’s a lot easier to deal with them.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‚Well, I can do that, too.‘

I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it’s one that’s easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.