Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

Effective action is always unjust.

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.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

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

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

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

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

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

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

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

The Bible says that as Christians we don’t grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven – but we still grieve.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

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.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

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.

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.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

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

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.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

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

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

They say miracles are past.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

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

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.