All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

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.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

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

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.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

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.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

I love being in a courtroom.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

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

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

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

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

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

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

Yes, there is a terrible moral in ‚Dorian Gray‘ – a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to God is a child of God and belongs to Him. And in Christ, we are made right with God, we are His righteousness, and we have the power of Christ in us to live right.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.