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.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

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

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

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

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

You’re innocent until proven guilty.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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

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?

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

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.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

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

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

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

I love being in a courtroom.

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.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

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.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

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

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

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

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.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

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

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.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

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

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

Effective action is always unjust.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

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.

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?

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

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.

Racism is real in this country.

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.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.