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.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

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.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

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.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

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

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

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?

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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.

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

Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

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

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president’s.

War settles nothing.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

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

By that sin fell the angels.

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

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

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

Racism is real in this country.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

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

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

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.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

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

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes… You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

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.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

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.

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

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

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

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

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

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

It is right to give every man his due.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

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

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

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

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.