Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Freedom is not enough.

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

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

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.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

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.

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

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

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to 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.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

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

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Every time the Fed implements ‚quantitative easing,‘ a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

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

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

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

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

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.

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

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

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

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

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

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

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

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.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

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.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

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

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.