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

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

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.

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

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

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

We have an idea that we Americans are God’s chosen people, that God loves us more than any other people, and that we are God’s blessed. I tell you that God doesn’t love us any more than He does the Russians.

The sergeant is the Army.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

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

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.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Most people know nobody in the military.

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

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

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that’s always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

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 should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

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.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

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

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

We’ve come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

I am a just man.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

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

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

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.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

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

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.