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

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

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.

I let the American people down.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

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.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

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.‘

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it – but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.

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

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

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

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

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

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

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Freedom is not enough.

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.

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

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

I don’t regret anything.

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

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.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

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.

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

Racism is real in this country.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

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

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

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.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

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

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

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

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

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

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

I’ve always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I’ve heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

I’m not one of these guys who sits around saying, ‚Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that’s why he’s doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s just had a bad childhood and that’s why he’s eating people.‘ Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.