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

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

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?

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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

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.

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

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

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

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

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.

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.

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.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

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.

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

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

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

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

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

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

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.

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

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.

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.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

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.

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.

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.

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

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

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

Racism is real in this country.

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

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

I want to reform the tax code so that it’s simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 – the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

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.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

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.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

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

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

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

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.