Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

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?

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

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

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

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.‘

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

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

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

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

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

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

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

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

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

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.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

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.

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

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

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.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

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.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

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

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.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

It is right to give every man his due.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

I am a just man.

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on burning fossil fuels, and thereby destroying ecosystems in order to create everlasting economic growth.

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

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

The good of the people is the greatest law.

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.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

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

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.