What has happened at Guantanamo Bay… does not represent the will of the American people. I’m embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

The Arab population of Palestine are victims of genocidal actions; their lands are confiscated or deprived of water supplies in the semi-desert areas, and their homes are destroyed with heavy wrecking equipment.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

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 will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

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

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

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

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

You can’t put democracy and freedom back into a box.

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by ‚sophisticated‘ methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

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

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

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

Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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.

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

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

I am a just man.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

Look, the American people are smart.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

Undoubtedly, the U.S. harbors leading international terrorists, people described by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department as leading terrorists, like Orlando Bosch, now Posada Carriles, not to speak of those who actually implement state terrorism.

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?

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.