After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

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

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it’s damaging.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

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.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

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

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

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

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?

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

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

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

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.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

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.

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

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

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

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

It is right to give every man his due.

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.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

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

War settles nothing.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

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

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

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.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

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.‘

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or do anything we wish, or offend people, without paying consequences – isolation, ostracism, etc.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.