An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

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.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

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.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

It is right to give every man his due.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

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

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

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 public man can be just a little crooked.

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

The world is too violent right now.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

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

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

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

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

When you go to your local police officer, your police chief in the town you live in, big or small, he will tell you the vast majority of the weapons recovered at a crime scene are either stolen weapons, and/or they have been ‚lost‘ or stolen.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

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

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

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

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

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay… does not represent the will of the American people. I’m embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

The FBI should not be a political body.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

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

The good of the people is the greatest law.

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

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

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

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

Those who ‚abjure‘ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

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

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.

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

Civil disobedience’s main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

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

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

I’m a felon. I get pulled over all the time.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.