Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

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

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

More law, less justice.

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

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

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

And so I would not enforce a law that would reject people and turn them away without giving them a fair and due process to determine if we should give them asylum and refuge.

The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Justice Scalia and I served together on the D.C. Circuit. So his votes are not surprising to me. What I like about him is that he’s very funny and very smart.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

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.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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?

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.